Benita Asas Manterola (4 March 1873 – 21 April 1968) was a Spanish teacher, journalist, and suffragist.

Together with Pilar Fernández Selfa, Asas founded the bi-monthly periodical El Pensamiento Femenino, which ran from 1913 to 1917.

[1] She was president of the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas (ANME) from 1924 to 1932.

[4] Asas was also a founding member of the Lyceum Club Femenino Español of Madrid, created by Maria de Maeztu Whitney.

[4] In 2017, a street in the city of Bilbao was renamed in recognition of Asas' contribution to the defense of women's rights.