National Council of Greek Women ( el, Εθνικό Σουμβούλιο Ελληνίδων, Ethniko Symvoulio Ellinidon) is a Greek women's organization, founded in 1908. The ESE was founded by

Kalliroi Parren Kallirhoe Parren ( el, Καλλιρρόη Παρρέν; 1861 – January 15, 1940) launched the feminist movement in Greece and was a journalist and writer in the late 19th and early 20th century. Early life Born in Rethymno, Crete, to a middle-cl ...

. Parren had founded the Union for the Emancipation of Women in 1894, but the ESE was to become a national organization. ESE was the first national women's organization in Greece. It functioned as an umbrella organization, uniting the many local women's organizations of Greece. The focus of the ESE were education and professional rights. It avoided the issue of women's suffrage, which was seen as too provocative, and therefore the Greek League for Women's Rights was founded by

Avra Theodoropoulou Avra Theodoropoulou ( el, Αύρα Θεοδωροπούλου; 3 November 1880 – 20 January 1963) was a Greek music teacher, pianist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She founded the League for Women's Rights in 1920 and served as its ch ...

in 1920 to address that issue.

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Francisca de Haan Francisca de Haan is a Dutch historian and writer who specializes in women's and gender history. From 2002 until 2022, she has taught at the Central European University, first in Budapest and since 2020 located in Vienna, where she is now Professo ...

Krassimira Daskalova Krassimira Daskalova ( bg, Красимира Петрова Даскалова, born 1957) is a Bulgarian academic and pioneer in gender studies. She served as editor of ''L'Homme: European Journal of Feminist History'' from 2003 to 2011 and is ...

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Bonnie G. Smith Bonnie G. Smith is the current Board of Governors Distinguished History Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Smith attended Smith College, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1962. Later, she earned a Ph.D. from the University of R ...

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