Lena Sommestad is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and economic historian. She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson from 2002 to 2006.
Carina Burman is a Swedish novelist and literature scholar. Her research has been focused on Swedish 18th and 19th century literature. She completed her Ph.D. in literature in Uppsala in 1988 with a dissertation on the Gustavian writer Johan Henric Kellgren. Later production includes a critical edition of previously unpublished letters of the novelist and feminist pioneer Fredrika Bremer in two volumes (1996) and a biography of Bremer (2001).
Sven Rydenfelt was a Swedish economist and political writer known for his libertarian views.
Eva Lundgren is a Norwegian-Swedish sociologist. She is an expert on violence against women and sexual violence, particularly in religious contexts. She is Professor Emerita of sociology at Uppsala University.
Women to the Top (W2T) was a European project for bringing more women into top management. It was funded by the European Commission and ran 2003-2005 in Estonia, Denmark, Greece and Sweden, culminating in a transnational conference in Stockholm, 24–25 January 2005. The total budget was 5.6 million SEK. The project was directed toward private and public employers.
Ellen Fries was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883. She was also involved in founding several women's organizations.
Yvonne Svanström,, is an associate professor and head of the Department of Economic History at Stockholm University.
The Gender War is a documentary in two parts by journalist Evin Rubar on radical feminism in Sweden and its influence on Swedish politics. It was produced by Nordisk Film and broadcast by Sveriges Television in the series Dokument inifrån on 15 and 22 May 2005. The Gender War was also part of Evin Rubar being awarded the TV award Kristallen and Sveriges Television's equality award the same year.
Alina Josefina Rosalie Jägerstedt was a Swedish social democrat and trade unionist. She was the only female member at the congress of 1889, where the Swedish Social Democratic Party was founded. She participated as the representative for the Skandinaviska Tobaksarbetarförbundet. Thanks to the motion she presented at the congress, both sexes were included in the Swedish Social Democratic Party from the start.
Eva Moberg (1932–2011) was a Swedish author, playwright, and debater.
Margareta Beijer (1625–1675), was the managing director of the Swedish Post Office, Postverket from 1669 until 1673. She was the fourth director of the Swedish Post Office, and the second female postmaster in Sweden after Gese Wechel, entitled Sveriges rikes postmästarinna. She succeeded her spouse, Johan von Beijer, after his death in 1669.
Societetsskolan i Göteborg för döttrar or simply Societetsskolan, was a Swedish girls' school managed by the congregation of the Moravian Church in Gothenburg from 1 November 1787 until 1857. It is referred to as the first girls' school in Sweden, because it was the first institution to provide serious academic secondary education to females.
Agneta Stark, is the vice chancellor of Dalarna University in Sweden and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2012 to 2013. She is also the vice chair of the Association of Swedish Higher Education.
Hilda Augusta Amanda Kerfstedt, née Hallström, was a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. She was a popular and noted writer in late 19th and early 20th century Sweden, and participated in the public debate. She was also engaged in the movement for women's rights, and active in the Fredrika Bremer Association and Married Woman's Property Rights Association. As a feminist, she focused on the debate around sexual equality, and was critical to the contemporary sexual double standards for men and women. As such, she was one of the participants in the Nordic sexual morality debate, the public debate in Swedish papers, books and plays, which took place during the 1880s. Kerfstedt was a member of the women's association Nya Idun and one of its first committee members. She was the editor of the feminist paper Dagny, the publication of the Fredrika Bremer Association, in 1888–1891. She was especially noted within the debate on children's literature.
The Swedish Church Law 1686 was a Swedish law which regulated the relationship between the state and the church in Sweden from 1686 until the Swedish Church Law 1992, as well as in Finland until 1870. It replaced the previous Swedish Church Ordinance 1571.
Statsfru is an office at the Royal Court of Sweden. The title has been used for two different offices during the course of history. Originally created in 1774, the office was given to several individuals, and simply the title of a married lady-in-waiting in rank between the överhovmästarinna and the kammarfröken. This function disappeared after 1965. From 1994 onward, the title Statsfru has been used by the senior lady-in-waiting of the queen.
Yvonne Hirdman is a Swedish historian and gender researcher. She has received many awards for her work including the August Prize.
Gunhild Kyle was a Swedish historian. She was Sweden's first professor of women's history at the University of Gothenburg.
Anna Mathilda Augusta Åbergsson was a leading figure in the Swedish allotment garden movement.
Dan Tomas Pousette is a Swedish economist.
