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Svenska Kvinnors Nationalförbund
National Council of Swedish Women (Swedish: "Svenska Kvinnors Nationalförbund") is the Swedish branch of the International Council of Women. It was founded in 1896 by Ellen Fries to function as an umbrella organisation for women's organisations in Sweden and represent Sweden at the international congresses of the ICW.Kyle, G., Abukhanfusa, K. (1987). Handbok i svensk kvinnohistoria. Sverige: Carlsson. ;Chairperson: # 1896-1898: Ellen Anckarsvärd # 1898-1909: Anna Hierta-Retzius # 1909-1920: Eva Upmark # 1920-1927: Bertha Nordenson # 1927-1928: Malin Wester-Hallberg # 1929–1930: Elisif Theel # 1930–1931: Ingegerd Palme # 1931–1949: Kerstin Hesselgren # 1972–1981: Margit Althin Margit is a feminine given name, a version of Margaret. People bearing the name include: * Margit of Hungary (1175–1223), Empress consort of Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor * Saint Margit of Hungary (1242–1271), Hungarian nun and prince ... References NEDagny, nr 36, 1911Dagny, nr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Council Of Women
The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating women's rights, human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington D.C., with 80 speakers and 49 delegates representing 53 women's organizations from 9 countries: Canada, the United States, Ireland, India, United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, France and Norway. Women from professional organizations, trade unions, arts groups and benevolent societies participate. National councils are affiliated to the ICW and thus make themselves heard at the international level. The ICW enjoys consultative status with the United Nations and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Permanent Representatives to United Nations Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, International Labour Organization, ILO, FAO, WHO, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNCTAD, and UNIDO. Beginnings During a visit to Europe in 1882, American suf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Fries
Ellen Fries (23 September 1855 – 31 March 1900) was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883. She also founded several women's organizations. Biography She born in 1855 at Rödslegård in Törnsfall, Kalmar County, to Colonel Patrik Constantin Fries and Beata Maria Borgström. She studied at the Åhlinska flickskolan, and graduated with a professional degree from Wallinska skolan in Stockholm 19 May 1874. She studied language and art by travelling to Paris and Leipzig and was a language teacher at Wallinska skolan in 1875–1877. The universities in Sweden had been opened to both genders in 1870. Fries enlisted as a student at Uppsala University 12 October 1877. She studied history, Nordic language and political science and was given the scholarship Kraemerska stipendiet. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden 31 May 1883. She was a teacher in history at Wallinska skolan in Stockholm 1884–1886 and at Åhlinska flickskola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbrella Organisation
An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. In business, political, and other environments, it provides resources and identities to the smaller organizations. In this kind of arrangement, it is sometimes responsible, to some degree, for the groups under its care. Umbrella organizations are prominent in cooperatives and in civil society, and can engage in advocacy or collective bargaining on behalf of their members. Examples * AFL–CIO and other national trade union centers * DD172 * Department of Public Safety * European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy * European Music Council * European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (EWF) * Federation of Poles in Great Britain * Federation of Student Islamic Societies * Independent Sector * National Retail Federation * National Wrestling Alliance * Open Source Geospatial Foundation * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Anckarsvärd
Anna Lovisa Eleonora "Ellen" Anckarsvärd (; 10 December 1833 – 8 December 1898) was a Swedish women's rights activist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association (1873), co-founder and vice chairperson of the Friends of Handicraft (1874), co-founder of Fredrika Bremer Association (1884), vice chairperson of the Fredrika Bremer Association in 1896–1898, chairperson of the National Council of Swedish Women in 1896–1898, and chairperson of the in 1896–1898. Life Ellen Anckarsvärd was the daughter of the architect Per Axel Nyström. In 1862, she married the architect Theodor Anckarsvärd (1816–1878). She became the mother of the diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd, later secretary of the foreign ministry, and the foster mother of the artist Louis Sparre. Ellen Anckarsvärd was to become one of the most notable figures in the first generation of the organized women's movement in Sweden. In 1873, she and Anna Hierta-Retzius too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Hierta-Retzius
Anna Wilhelmina Hierta-Retzius, née ''Hierta'' (24 August 1841 – 21 December 1924), was a Swedish women's rights activist and philanthropist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the '' Married Woman's Property Rights Association'' (1873), founder and chairperson of the evening school ''Torsdagsskolan'' in 1864–1874, member of the board in the ''Bikupan'' association in 1870–1887, Vice Chairperson of the '' Married Woman's Property Rights Association'' in 1886–1893, member of the board of the ''Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne'' (The Memorial Foundation of Lars Hierta) in 1878-1911 and its Vice Chairperson in 1911–1924, co-worker in '' Aftonbladet'' in 1884–1887, founder of the ''Adolf Fredriks arbetsstuga för barn'' (Adolf Fredrik Work House for Children) in 1887, Chairperson of the central committee of the Stockholm work houses in 1889–1909, chairperson of the Swedish National Council of Women (SKNF) in 1899–1911, Vice Chairperson of the ''International Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Nordenson
Bertha Harriet Nordenson (1857–1928) was a devoted Swedish women's rights activist and suffragist. From the late 1880s, she supported women's emancipation, becoming a member and later a board member of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association (Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt). When it was incorporated into the Fredrika Bremer Association (Fredrika Bremer Förbundet), Nordenson joined the standing committee on the legal position of women and was later elected to the board. As a result, she also became a significant contributor to the National Council of Swedish Women (Svenska kvinnors nationalförbund). Taking an active interest in medical care, from 1908 she chaired Föreningen för sjukvård i fattiga hem (Society for Home Medical Care for the Poor). For her extensive services to the Swedish Red Cross, she was awarded the gold medal. Early life Born in London on 25 September 1857, Bertha Harriet Nordenson was one of the five daughters of the timber and iron ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingegerd Palme
Ingegerd (Old Norse ''Ingigerðr, Ingigærðr'') is a Scandinavian feminine given name, from the theonym ''Ing'' combined with the element ''garðr '' "enclosure, protection". The name Inger is a short form. In Finnish the equivalence of Ingegerd is Inkeri. ''Ingegerd'' (less commonly in the variant ''Ingegärd'') was most popularly given in modern Sweden during the 1920s to 1930s, but the name remains in wide use today. The name is also found in Denmark and in Norway (also in the variant ''Ingegjerd'' and ''Ingjerd'') but much more rarely than in Sweden. According to the respective statistic offices, as of 2012 there were 7792 people called Ingegerd in Sweden, compared to 127 in Norway and 76 in Denmark. In Finland, which has an ethnic Swedish population of about 0.34 million, there were 2594 people called Ingegerd as of May 2013, as in Sweden peaking among the generation of women born between 1920 and 1940, with the name given six times to girls born in three-year period 2010â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Hesselgren
Kerstin Hesselgren (14 January 1872 – 19 August 1962) was a Swedish politician. Hesselgren became the first woman to be elected into the Upper House of the Swedish Parliament after female suffrage was introduced in 1921. She was elected by suggestion of the Liberals with support from the Social democrats. Biography Hesselgren was born at Torsåker, Hofors, Gästrikland. She was the eldest daughter of a provincial medical doctor Gustaf Alfred Hesselgren and Maria Margareta Wærn. She was the eldest of six children. She never married. She was educated by a governess at home and then at a girl school in Switzerland. In 1895, she graduated as a feldsher in Uppsala; in 1896. The following year she led the School of Domestic Science in Stockholm. Whilst on leave she qualified as a Sanitary Inspector from Bedford college in 1905 and left the college and her job in 1906. Early career Kerstin Hesselgren worked as a sanitary-inspector in Stockholm from 1912 to 1934 and school k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit Althin
Margit is a feminine given name, a version of Margaret. People bearing the name include: * Margit of Hungary (1175–1223), Empress consort of Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor * Saint Margit of Hungary (1242–1271), Hungarian nun and princess * Margit Albrechtsson (1918–1994), Swedish cross country skier * Margit Anna (1913–1991), Hungarian painter * Margit Bangó (born 1950), Hungarian Romani singer and recipient of the Kossuth Prize * Margit Bara (1928–2016), Hungarian actress * Margit Beck (1918–1997), Hungarian-born American painter * Margit Brandt (1945–2011), Danish fashion designer * Margit Carlqvist (born 1932), Swedish actress *Margit Carstensen (1940–2023), German actress * Margit Dajka (1907–1986), Hungarian actress * Margit Danÿ (1906–1975), Hungarian fencer * Margit Elek (1910–1986), Hungarian fencer * Margit Eskman (1925–1990), Finnish politician * Margit Fischer (born 1943), First Lady of Austria, wife of President Heinz Fischer * Margit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 In Sweden
Events from the year 1896 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström. Events * ''AIK Fotboll'' is founded. * Eskilstuna Guif is created. * Lundsbergs boarding school is established. * '' Svenska Mästerskapet'' * Broxvik Drama, a cause célèbre, takes place. * The Swedish National Council of Women is founded by Ellen Fries. * '' Nya smedjegÃ¥rden'' is closed and demolished. Births * 6 May – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist (died 1966) * 25 November – Tore Holm, sailor (died 1977). * 20 December – Arvid Andersson-Holtman, gymnast (died 1992). Deaths * 19 October - Emmy Rappe, the first trained nurse in Sweden (born 1835) * 24 September – Louis Gerhard De Geer, baron (born 1818) * Kloka Anna i VallÃ¥kra, divine visionary and natural healer (born 1820) * 9 March - Hanna Winge, painter (born 1838) * December 10 Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( ; ; 21 October 1833 – 10 Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Organizations In Sweden
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern societies are patriarchal—they prioritize the male point of view—and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women. Originating in late 18th-century Europe, feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to Women's suffrage, vote, Nomination rules, run for public office, Right to work, work, earn gender pay gap, equal pay, Right to property, own property, Right to education, receive education, enter into contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
