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- ↑ Suomalainen naisliitto i Uppslagsverket Finland (webbupplaga, 2012). CC-BY-SA 4.0
- ↑ Minna 2/2015 Archive index at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Historia, Archive index at the Wayback Machine Suomalainen naisliitto