La Mujer Nueva was a Chilean newspaper that edited the Women's Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chile (MEMCH) between 1935 and 1941. It became an important journalistic publication that debated in its articles and illustrations about the condition of the female population. What's New?

From its first issue - published on November 8, 1935 - it accommodated the aspirations related to obtaining and expanding civil and political rights, including universal female suffrage, and the social demands that inspired that first Chilean feminist movement. The appearance of this organization, made up of professional and hardworking women, was a milestone at the time.

The economic consequences of the 1930 crisis, which raised the cost of urban life for the poorest workers and families, caused the different social and political organizations to multiply their requirements to the Chilean State. The MEMCH, from the pages of La Mujer Nueva, was no exception. Its leaders argued that urban poverty was not only an economic problem, but also a problem that was part of working motherhood and women's complex access to the labor market.

Along with supporting the campaigns to sensitize the population and the government authorities regarding the right to presidential vote of Chilean women, La Mujer Nueva dedicated its efforts to other conflicts of the time. The debate on women's work in general and industrial women's work in particular allowed us to verify that female poverty had specific characteristics and that the high cost of living of those years substantially harmed women.

This newspaper also collected political concerns of an international nature that involved the lives of women, such as the social consequences of the Spanish Civil War and the fight against the fascist regimes that were born in the 1930s in Europe.

Among the relevant events covered by this newspaper are: the development of the First MEMCH Congress in 1937; the triumph of the Popular Front in 1938, which made Pedro Aguirre Cerda president of the Republic; and the Second MEMCH Congress of 1940. Its last issue was published in February 1941.

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