Rewritting the history of spanish pharmacy in feminism

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Abstract: Introduction and Objectives. The main objective of this article is to highlight the role of first Spanish women in pharmacy, through history in feminine. Concretely, authors wish to praise the figure of the first Spanish female pharmaceutical university students, emphasizing the difficulties they had to overcome simply because they were women, to achieve their goals. Methodology. To publicize the history of the pioneering Spanish women of pharmacy, authors made a video which was aimed at second-year students of the degree in Pharmacy at the University of Seville (Spain) and it was elaborated according to the conditions of that time (places and clothing, above all), which was projected in a classroom of the Faculty of Pharmacy of that university and reflected, in the form of interviews, the lives of four first Spanish pharmacists, chosen from among those women who can be considered pioneers of the Spanish pharmaceutical profession, who managed to study in the first Pharmacy faculties in the country. Subsequently, students were asked to respond to a questionnaire in which they could express their impressions about the difficult life that these women had had due to issues of their gender, and the enormous efforts they had to make to be able to overcome these difficulties and be able to practice their professions. Results. Apart from promoting a methodological resource that can be used by other professors in their own universities, a qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis is carried out on the responses given by the students to the aforementioned questionnaire. Conclusions and discussion. This study concludes that the pioneering women of Spanish Pharmacy laid the first stone to try to achieve, on the one hand, equality between genders, and, on the other, to serve as references and models for those women of the future who also want to follow in their footsteps.