Kommittén För ökad Kvinnorepresentation
Kommittén för ökad kvinnorepresentation (Literary: 'The committee for increased women's representation'), also known as Den ökade ('The Increasing') for short, was a Swedish women's association, founded in 1937. It worked for an increased representation of women on all levels of the political system.Rönnbäck, Josefin, '"Utan kvinnor inget folkstyre": en historisk exposé över kampen för ökad kvinnorepresentation i Sverige', Tidskrift för genusvetenskap., 2010:3, s. 61-89, 2010 History Women in Sweden were given municipal suffrage in 1862 and municipal eligibility in 1909, followed by national suffrage and eligibility in 1921. The first 38 women were elected to local councils in the 1910 local elections, and the first five women were elected in to the national parliament the Riksdag in 1921 Swedish general election. In 1927 the Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund founded the campaign group ''Föreningen Kvinnolistan'' to campaign for an increased representation of women in po ...
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Riksdag
The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the parliamentary sovereignty, supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportional representation, proportionally and serving, since 1994, fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election. The constitutional mandates of the Riksdag are enumerated in the ''Basic Laws of Sweden#Instrument of Government, Instrument of Government'' (), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act ().Instrument of Government
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