Look at her. Confident, stylish, a woman with a mission. She was clear in action and in speech. Look at her walk in this picture. She knows herself. She knows where she is going. She holds one baby in her arms and she has another in her womb. Her devoted husband looks at her as if she were her personal goddess.
Born in a small town by the sea in Argentina in 1935 she studied piano, then math, and then became a world expert in population growth, migration and aging of populations, or what is now known as demography. She had a doctorate from the Univesity of Pennsylvania and worked as a researcher at the CENEP in Buenos Aires and at the United Nations, Division de Poblacion and at the Fondo de Poblacion. Zulma travelled all over the world, spending significant time in Africa.