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One of the reasons for the formation of a women's support group was that the opponents to women suffrage used the fact that women suffrage was not a demand from the women themselves, and before the Lindhagen motion was voted down, the support group managed to hand over a list of 4,154 names from Stockholm and 1,487 from Gothenburg. [1]
Swedish suffragist Signe Bergman, around 1910 Women's suffrage demonstration in Gothenburg, June 1918. During the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), Sweden had conditional women's suffrage. [41] Until the reform of 1865, the local elections consisted of mayoral elections in the cities, and elections of parish vicars in the countryside parishes.
It is traditionally the foremost organisation of the bourgeois-liberal women's movement in Sweden. It has always been open to both women and men. It is a member of the International Alliance of Women, and is a sister association of the Danish Women's Society, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and the Icelandic Women's Rights Association.
Ellen Hagen (1873–1967) – suffragist, women's rights activist and politician; Gerda Hellberg (1870–1937) – women's rights activist and suffragist; Lilly Hellström (1866–1930) – schoolteacher, children's newspaper editor and suffragist; Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) – women's rights activist, suffragist and philanthropist
The Swedish government assesses all policy according to the tenets of gender mainstreaming. [4] [5] Women in Sweden are 45% of the political representatives in the Swedish Parliament. Women make up 43% of representatives in local legislatures as of 2014. [1]
The first independent country to introduce women's suffrage was arguably Sweden. In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was in effect during the Age of Liberty (1718–1772). [1] In 1756, Lydia Taft became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred under British rule in the Massachusetts Colony. [22]
Ellen Helga Louise Hagen (née Wadström; 1873–1967) was a Swedish suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was a member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage, the chairperson of Liberala kvinnor (Liberal Women) in 1938–1946 and Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund (Swedish Women's Citizen Society) in 1936–1963.
Pages in category "Women's suffrage in Sweden" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.