page_title: Pastoriza Flores
hierarchical_section_title: Pastoriza Flores
caption_attribution_description: English: Pastoriza Flores, Ecuadorian educator
context_page_description: Pastoriza Flores was an Ecuadorian educator. She was the first Ecuadorean woman student to hold the degree of Ph.D. from an American university, and she was awarded it at the age of twenty-four. "I had to hurry. Other Hispanic Americans had come to study in the universities of the United States, and I was afraid some other woman would reach that goal before me."
context_section_description: Pastoriza Flores (Pastoriza Flores de Hendel) (2 May 1897 - 7 May 1937)  was an Ecuadorian educator. She was the first Ecuadorean woman student to hold the degree of Ph.D. from an American university, and she was awarded it at the age of twenty-four. "I had to hurry. Other Hispanic Americans had come to study in the universities of the United States, and I was afraid some other woman would reach that goal before me."
caption: Pastoriza Flores, 1921
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