Eva Alterman Blay, a Brazilian sociologist, was born in São Paulo in 1937.

She is a pioneer of women’s rights in Brazil and is the founder of the Center for the Study of Women and Gender Rights at the University of São Paulo. She is active in politics as a member of the centrist Brazilian Social Democracy Party, and was the first woman to sit in the Brazilian Senate. She has Master's, Doctoral and Postdoctoral degrees in Sociology. Blay sits on the board of the Remember the Women Ins*ute

References

• Rodrigues, Carla; Clara Charf; Fernanda Pompeu; Patrícia Negrão (2006). Brasileiras guerreiras da paz (in Portuguese). Sao Paulo: Editora Contexto. pp.:55–58. ISBN:978-85-7244-319-7. OCLC:72890991.