About: Jovita Varias De Guzman

Jovita Romeroso Varias-De Guzman (15 February 1923 - 7 March 2016) was a Filipino female educator, researcher, editor and writer of scholarly books. She is deemed as the first Filipino who wrote academic studies about the psychology of the Filipinos, published in her book "Psychology of the Filipinos: Studies and Essays" c.1967 (co-authored by her younger brother, Rodolfo Varias, MD). Her other notable work was "Women of Distinction: Biographical Essays on Outstanding Filipino Women of the Past and the Present" c.1967. The latter book has been widely used as a research reference book on Filipino female empowerment as it was the first of its kind to compile and showcase Filipino female achievers in the past. Mrs. De Guzman is also one of the first Filipino female awarded a Fulbright Scholar