The Moderate Women ( ) is the

women's wing A women's wing, sometimes also known as a women's group or women's branch, is an auxiliary or independent front or faction within a larger organization, typically a political party, that consists of that organization's female membership or acts to ...

of the Swedish

Moderate Party The Moderate Party ( , , M), commonly referred to as the Moderates ( ), is a Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative* * * * * List of political parties in Sweden, political party in Sweden. The party generally supports tax cuts, the free ma ...

. It was established in 1912, since women had been allowing voting rights in municipal elections in 1910.

History

When women were given municipal suffrage in 1910 and the first Moderate woman had been elected in to a municipal council ( Valfrid Palmgren), the Moderate Party allowed the foundation for women's group within the party for the first time. The first woman's group was the local ''Stockholms Moderata Kvinnoförbund'' ("Moderate Women's League of Stockholm"), which was founded in 1912 by Lizinka Dyrssen, Louise Stenbock and Cecilia Milow under the leadership of Ebba von Eckerman. The ''Stockholms Moderata Kvinnoförbund'' was transformed in to the ''Sveriges moderata kvinnoförbund (SMKF)'' ("Moderate Women's League of Sweden") in 1915. It existed in parallel with the ''Högerns Centrala Kvinnoråd'' ("The Central Women's Advisory Committee of the Right"), founded under the leadership of Alexandra Skoglund in 1920. Between 1920 and 1937, two separate independent women's wings existed. In 1937, the two women's wings ''Sveriges moderata kvinnoförbund (SMKF)'' and ''Högerns Centrala Kvinnoråd'' were both united to form a single women's wing, later known as Moderate Women, under the leadership of Alexandra Skoglund, formerly chairperson of the ''Högerns Centrala Kvinnoråd''.Petersson, Ann-Marie (2015). Sveriges Moderata Kvinnoförbund - Det första självständiga politiska kvinnoförbundet i Sverige

Chairpersons

* Alexandra Skoglund, 1937–1938 * Ebon Andersson, 1938–1958 * Karin Wetterström, 1958–1965 * Ethel Florén-Winther, 1965–1972 * Britt Mogård, 1972–1981 * Ann-Cathrine Haglund, 1981–1990 *

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, 1990–1997 *

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, 1997–2001 *

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, 2001–2005 *

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, 2005–2011 *

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, 2011–2015 *

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, 2015–2016 *

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, tf, 2016–2017 *

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, 2017–2019 *

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, 2019–

References

External links

Official website
{{Moderate Party 1912 establishments in Sweden Organizations established in 1912 Women's wings of political parties in Sweden Moderate Party Organizations based in Stockholm