The Lithuanian Catholic Women's Organization () was a
Lithuania
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n women's organization. Founded in 1908, it was the largest women's organization in
interwar Lithuania
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. It was disestablished after the
Soviet occupation of Lithuania
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in 1991. For a period of several years during World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic st ...
in 1940.
In 1907, the
First Congress of Lithuanian Women
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took place in
Kaunas
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. On the congress it was decided that a national women's organisation should be founded. However, due to the split between Catholic and liberal women, the plan could not be realised, and instead they founded separate women's organisations.
See also
*
Lithuanian Women's Union The Lithuanian Women's Union ( or LMS) was a women's organization active in Lithuania from 1922 to 1933. The First Congress of Lithuanian Women held in 1907 called for the establishment of the union, but it was not accomplished due to conflicts betw ...
References
* Virginija Jurėnienė, Lietuvių moterų judėjimas XIX a. pab.-XX a. pirmojoje pusėje, 2006, Vilnius.
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1908 establishments in Lithuania
Organizations established in 1908
Feminist organizations in Lithuania
1940 disestablishments in Lithuania
Organizations disestablished in 1940