Margarita Malharro de Torres

Margarita Malharro de Torres (1921–1994) was an Argentine teacher and Radical Civic Union politician who served as a national senator for Mendoza from 1983 to 1992. She introduced the bill that became Law 24,012 of 1991, the women's quota law requiring at least 30 per cent women on candidate lists for national legislative elections, the first national law of its kind.

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