Google doodle features Filipina suffragette

A notable Filipina suffragette, Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, is featured in a Google doodle on her 142nd birth anniversary.

Alvero is known for her writings done in Spanish and Tagalog as well as a teacher, social worker and an activist campaigning for women's rights.

She was married to a painter, Emilio Alvero.

A graduate and later a teacher at the Assumption College, she lobbied and campaigned for women's right to vote that was granted in April 30, 1937.

She was also the first Dean of Women at the University of Sto. Tomas and was one of two female staff members of La Independencia, which was the revolutionary government's official newspaper that was edited by General Antonio Luna.

She also founded the first school for Philippine lay women, the Instituto de Mujeres that is now known as Rosa Sevilla Memorial School.

She received the Presidential Medal of Merit and the Queen Isabella II of Spain Award. -- BAP, GMA News