Irene Robledo

[1] She broke with the feminine stereotypes of the early twentieth century by studying to be a teacher, and later as a homeopathic doctor, dentist, and social worker.

She was considered a normalist teacher who overcame her class limitations and gender stereotypes by inserting herself into groups with intellectual interests.

[3] She actively participated with the group of intellectuals that Governor José Guadalupe Zuno met with for the re-opening of the University of Guadalajara in 1925.

[1] After the father was appointed a judge in Tequila, Jalisco, the family removed to that city and Robledo started her studies at the elementary school.

[3] From 1921 to 1922, she was a math teacher at the Universidad Obrera de México, and in 1925, she was one of the co-founders of the University of Guadalajara in its modern era.

During this decade, she studied in the United States to be a homeopathic doctor, dentist, and social worker,[3] as this education was not available in Mexico.

[1] In 1948, at the Women's Christian Association meeting, she founded the first school of social work in Guadalajara, but was forced two years later to close it, as it was unable to grant official degrees.

Three years later, with the support of the rector, Jorge Matute Remus, the School of Social Work at the University of Guadalajara was founded.