Naisasialiitto Unioni (Finnish) or Kvinnosaksförbundet Unionen (Swedish), sometimes referred to in English as the League of Finnish Feminists, is a non-profit Finnish women's organization which was established in 1892. Since 1904 it has been the Finnish arm of the International Alliance of Women. The co-founders were

Lucina Hagman Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Jo ...

, Maikki Friberg and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt. Unioni was initially concerned with

women's voting rights Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

(granted in 1906), equal pay, education and combatting prostitution. More recently, it has striven to improve the social status of women and to increase the number of women who are active in politics. Today the association exerts influence on political discussions, seeks to improve

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

and works against oppression. Compared to similar organizations in other countries, membership, at under 2,000 was rather low. By contrast, there were some 20,000 women in the Finnish temperance association in the early 20th century and almost as many in the women workers' movement.

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