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Swedish Women’s National Council has for its object to promote the
collaboration between societies, the Boards of which admit female members. Hitherto
twelve associations, with a total number of more than 11,000 members, have
joined the league, amongst which may be mentioned: the Fredrika Bremer Society
(see below), the Friends of Handiwork, the Charity Organization Society,
Swedish Women’s league for Sweden’s defense, Swedish Women’s Peace alliance,
Swedish Women’s General Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, etc.
The Council has to represent Sweden at the quinquennial congresses held by
the International Council of Women.
At present, the activity for
elevating women’s position is being
more and more concentrated in the
Fredrika Bremer Society deriving
its name from the illustrious lady
novelist who was one of the first
to agitate for the emancipation of
women in Sweden. Among the
founders of this Society is foremost
to be mentioned Mrs. S.
Adlersparre (1823/95), whose versatile
and noble activity also in other
respects has been of great
significance for the development of the
"Woman question in our country.
The programme of the Fredrika
Bremer Society, founded in 1884, is to
promote a sound and rational
development of the work for the advancement
of women morally and intellectually as
well as socially and economically. The
Society at present counts something
like 1,600 members, and is engaged
on an extensive and varied field of
activity. At the end of 1899, it
possessed in scholarships for women studying for the learned professions or for
different branches of trade a capital of 236,451 kronor. The Society also
publishes a magazine of its own entitled »Dagny». An earlier organ for the
Woman question was the Periodical for the Home (Tidskrift för hemmet),
published during 1859/85 by Mrs. Adlersparre.
To get their special interests attended to, the labouring women
have of låte years begun to organize themselves into Trade unions for
various crafts.
According to statistics the position of Swedish women is, on the whole,
rather favourable. One testimony, foremost of them all, is the longevity of Swedish
women being the greatest observed in any country, and especially during
the most active years of their lives the death-rate is low. It has also been
pointed out previously, not only that frequency of crime has generally decreased
amongst the female population of Sweden, but also that this is the case to a
Fredrika Bremer.
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