Kitty Bugge (1878–1938) was a Norwegian feminist and union leader. She served as the 12th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1935 to 1936. Bugge also founded the National Union of Female Telegraph Operators and served as its first President from 1914 to 1919 and again from 1921 to 1933. She was a board member of the Union of State Employees from 1923 to 1930. Bugge was a sister of the noted feminist,lawyer and diplomat Anna Bugge. [1] [2]
Ole Anton Qvam was a Norwegian lawyer and Liberal politician,who was the Norwegian minister of Justice 1891–1893,1898–1899 and 1900–1902,minister of the Interior 1899–1900,as well as head of the ministry of Auditing,ministry of Agriculture and ministry of Justice in 1900,and Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm 1902–1903.
Anna Wicksell Bugge was a Norwegian and Swedish feminist,lawyer,diplomat and politician.
Betzy Aleksandra Kjelsberg was a Norwegian women's rights activist,suffragist and a member of the feminist movement. She was a politician with the Liberal Party and the first female board member of the party.
The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights through political and legal reform within the framework of liberal democracy." Founded in 1884,NKF is Norway's oldest political organization after the Liberal Party. NKF stands for an inclusive,intersectional and progressive mainstream liberal feminism and has always been open to everyone regardless of gender. Headquartered at Majorstuen,Oslo,NKF consists of a national-level association as well as regional chapters based in the larger cities,and is led by a national executive board. NKF has had a central role in the adoption of all major gender equality legislation and reforms since 1884.
Torild Skard is a Norwegian psychologist,politician for the Socialist Left Party,a former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of UNICEF.
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup"Gina" Krog was a Norwegian suffragist,teacher,liberal politician,writer and editor,and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
Randi Marie Blehr was a Norwegian feminist,liberal politician,suffragist,peace activist and women's rights activist. She was married to Prime Minister of Norway Otto Blehr,and was therefore addressed as "Madam Prime Minister" during her lifetime. She was one of the preeminent leaders of the Norwegian women's rights movement from the 1880s and co-founded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights,serving as its President from 1895 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1922. She also initiated the establishment of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association that grew to become a humanitarian organisation with 250,000 members. She was a leading advocate of Norwegian independence from Sweden and took on representative duties for Norway during her husband's tenure as Prime Minister.
Margarete Ottilie Bonnevie was a Norwegian author,women's rights advocate and politician for the Liberal Party of Norway. A liberal feminist,she served as the 13th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (NKF) from 1936 to 1946 and is credited with reviving the liberal women's rights movement in the 1930s. Bonnevie said that NKF should work for solutions that are in the best interest of all women and society,"be the captain who keeps a steady course" in the struggle for equality and "set out the main policy objectives and seek to get the government,parliament and local government bodies to implement the reforms that are required."
Anna Hvoslef was a Norwegian journalist,conservative politician and feminist. One of Norway's first female professional journalists,she was the first woman to work as a journalist at the major newspaper Aftenposten and served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights 1930–1935.
Fredrikke Marie Qvam was a Norwegian humanitarian leader,feminist,liberal politician and the wife of Prime Minister Ole Anton Qvam. She was the founder (1896) of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association that grew to become Norway's largest women's organisation with 250,000 members,and served as its first President from 1896 to 1933,and as its Honorary President from 1933 until her death. She also served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1899 to 1903. She was widely regarded as one of the most influential and successful political lobbyists of her time,and was described in the journal Samtiden in 1915 as the "Queen of the corridors." She was addressed as "Madam Cabinet Minister" and later as "Madam Prime Minister",using her husband's titles.
Marit Johanne Aarum (1903–1956) was a Norwegian economist,liberal politician,civil servant and feminist.
Irene Bauer was a Norwegian senior government official,Labour Party politician and feminist. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1988 to 1990. She also served as a political adviser to the Parliamentary Group of the Labour Party and as the Private Secretary to Minister of Trade and Industry Finn Kristensen in 1989. She served as a Director in the Ministry of the Environment from 1997. She has also worked at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. She was the mother of the noted comedian Thomas Giertsen.
Fredrikke Andrea Møllerup Mørck was a Norwegian liberal feminist,editor,and teacher. She served as the editor-in-chief of the women's rights magazine Nylænde from 1916 to 1927 and as the 10th president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1926 to 1930.
Ingerid Gjøstein Resi was a Norwegian philologist,women's rights leader and politician for the Liberal Party. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1952 until her death in 1955.
Aadel Lampe was a Norwegian women's rights leader,liberal politician,teacher for deaf children and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was elected as a deputy member of the Storting in 1922,as one of the first women elected to the Norwegian parliament,and served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1922 to 1926.
Sigrun Hoel is a Norwegian lawyer,academic,government official and feminist. She served as the 22nd President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (NKF) from 1984 to 1988,succeeding supreme court justice Karin M. Bruzelius. Before she became the national President she was chair of the Oslo chapter from 1980 to 1984 and Vice President of NKF from 1982 to 1984. She was acting Gender Equality Ombud in 1984,1988 and 1991.
Siri Hangeland is a Norwegian feminist,civic leader and politician.
Bjørg Krane Bostad is a Norwegian feminist,civic leader,civil servant,businesswoman and humanitarian.
Minda Mathea Olava Ramm was a Norwegian novelist,translator and literary critic.
Anne Hege Grung is a Norwegian professor of interreligious studies and a feminist,and the President of Norway's preeminent women's and girls' rights NGO,the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (NKF). In 2020,she succeeded supreme court justice Karin M. Bruzelius as NKF President.