Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swarts sometimes spelt Swartz, was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working class, and also the personal development of women. Her works were about motherhood, love, poverty, politics, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of the working-class woman.
Rosalie Ingeborg Karolina Fougelberg is known as Sweden's first female dentist after the profession was opened to women.
Amalia Assur was the first female dentist in Sweden.
Elisabeth Tamm was a Swedish liberal politician and women's rights activist. She was known in the parliament as Tamm i Fogelstad.
Bertha Wellin, was a Swedish politician (Conservative) and nurse. She was one of the first five women to be elected into the Swedish parliament.
Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren,, was a Swedish author, feminist, suffragist, and pacifist.
Siri Karin Derkert was a Swedish artist and sculptor. She was also a strong advocate for peace, feminism and environmental issues.
The status and rights of Women in Sweden has changed several times throughout the history of Sweden. These changes have been affected by the culture, religion and laws of Sweden, as well as social discourses like the strong feminist movement.
Ellen Helga Louise Hagen 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 in 1938–1946 and Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund in 1936–1963. During the 1920s and 1930s, she was internationally active within peace work and the Swedish delegate in the international peace conference in Paris in 1931.
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 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.
Helga Frideborg "Frida" Maria Stéenhoff, née Wadström, was a Swedish writer and women's rights activist. She was a leading participant of the public debate of gender equality and a contributor of several radical progressive publications. She was engaged in the women suffrage movement and several humanitarian organisations.
Events from the year 1741 in Sweden
Events from the year 1954 in Sweden
Feminism in Sweden is a significant social and political influence within Swedish society. Swedish political parties across the political spectrum commit to gender-based policies in their public political manifestos. The Swedish government assesses all policy according to the tenets of gender mainstreaming. 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. In addition, in 2014, newly sworn in Foreign Minister Margot Wallström announced a feminist foreign policy.
Eva Johanna Andén was a Swedish lawyer. She became the first woman member of the Swedish Bar Association on 14 March 1918.
Tidevarvet was a weekly political and feminist magazine existed between November 1923 and December 1936 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ada Konstantia Nilsson was an early Swedish woman medical doctor. She was one of the founders of the campaigning magazine Tidevarvet in 1923.
Honorine Hermelin was a Swedish headteacher, magazine founder and feminist.
Herta Elisabet Svensson (1886–1981) was a Swedish educator, social worker, and personnel consultant. She was an important figure in the history of social work and settlement movement in Sweden, and was part of the initiative that established the country's first settlement house Birkagården in 1912. In 1921, she became the first person in Sweden to hold the title "personnel consultant". While working for the Svenska tobaksmonopolet, she actively volunteered to uplift the living conditions of workers and established a convalescent home in Värmland.
Fogelstad is a manor house and former seat farm in Södermanland, Sweden. The seat farm was acquired by August Tamm in the late 19th century, where he built what is today Fogelstad manor house. Fogelstad has since been associated with Tamm's daughter, women's rights activist Elisabeth Tamm who was born at Fogelstad, and was one of the first women in parliament.
