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In November of 1930 the Peruvian writer Zoila Aurora Cáceres went back to Lima from Europe. This return left a mark in the continuity of the campaign opened years before, when she founded the Collective Peruvian Feminism in 1924 and which resumed with more strength in the context of the Constitutional Assembly of 1931. Against this background, a group of telephone operators found in Caceres a valuable allied for their salary raise and a better working environment complaint. This alliance confirms what Michelle Perrot points it out when referring to the first initiatives of female unionization, organized by women external to laborer world but compromised with the associative movement and recognition. The article presents the strike from the gender approach in the history. For which the word historical agent is used to highlight the capacity of action and the tactics that use both the telephone operators and Caceres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]