Isabel Pinto de Vidal (Montevideo, December 13, 1885 – 1969) was a Uruguayan feminist lawyer and politician, and a member of the Colorado Party.
[3] After the women's suffrage in Uruguay, the Batllist sector of the Colorado Party, in which Pinto de Vidal was active, entered the electoral campaign of 1942.
For the first time in Uruguayan history, women were elected to parliament, Sofía Álvarez Vignoli and Pinto de Vidal were the first senators.
[13] At that point, CONAMU's National Office of Labour (Oficina Nacional del Trabajo) and its president, Pinto de Vidal, intervened and reached an agreement with the ‘La Uruguaya’’s management.
[13] However, working with CONAMU proved difficult for Pinto de Vidal who, in 1922, addressed their fourth annual meeting and confessed that she was having difficulty getting women to accept the feminist ideals.
[15] Arguments increased between founder Luisi and CONAMU leader, Pinto de Vidal, due to their diverging political views.
[17] In 1919, the Uruguayan Congress started to discuss topics including child abandonment, nutrition, protective services for children and regulations against the employment of boys and girls below the age of fifteen.
[19] Both the party and the Batillist philosophy were created by José Batlle y Ordóñez, president of Uruguay (1903-1907 and 1911–1916) and emphasized nationalism and social, political, and economic development.
[23] One of Pinto de Vidal's most significant achievements for the feminist movement was her participation in the drafting and signing of the United Nations Charter.
[25] As she had to leave the conference early, Lutz and Minerva Bernardino were the crucial supporters of Pinto de Vidal's amendment in the committee meetings.
[26] The debates led to the approval of the amendment the UN “shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in the principal and subsidiary organs”, to be added to the UN Charter.
[10] Even though the resolution's final wording was different and with less effective phrasing from Pinto de Vidal's proposal, the conference participants acknowledged that this was an achievement of the Pan-American feminist movement.