Delia Matte’s exact birth date is unknown. The only reliable data known of her origins are that her parents were Domingo Matte Mesias and Rosalia Perez Vargas.
After he marriage to Salvador Izquierdo, she propelled her most important work: the Club Social de Señoras (Ladies’ Social Club) in 1915. Although the organization was created for cultural ends, it soon became place for meetings and debates regarding the rights and emancipation of women.
Mainly conformed by high class women with a liberal mindset, the Club functioned as an autonomous entity of the Church and fought all of the prejudices its objectives caused among the conservatives of the times. The meetings were characterized for not only instructing the present on classical subjects like history and Art, but also for dazzling the people attending with music, poetry and the presence of noteworthy intellectuals.
There were even some meetings were the restricted situation women faced in a completely macho world was dealt with.
Considered ahead of their time for the beginning of the century, Delia Matte and the members of the Ladies’ Social Club managed to impact a small group of the conservative party, who in 1917 presented a project to concede women civil rights for the first time in our history. After this little big achievement, the direction of the organization of wealthy women changed, becoming a place of charity and social aid.