Moderate Women


The Moderate Women is the women's wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It was established in 1912, since women had been allowing voting rights in municipal elections in 1910.

History

When women were given municipal suffrage in 1910 and the first Moderate woman had been elected in to a municipal council, the Moderate Party allowed the foundation for women's group within the party for the first time.
The first woman's group was the local Stockholms Moderata Kvinnoförbund, which was founded in 1912 by Lizinka Dyrssen, Louise Stenbock and Cecilia Milow under the leadership of Ebba von Eckerman.
The Stockholms Moderata Kvinnoförbund was transformed in to the Sveriges moderata kvinnoförbund in 1915.
It existed in parallel with the Högerns Centrala Kvinnoråd, founded under the leadership of Alexandra Skoglund in 1920. Between 1920 and 1937, two separate independent women's wings existed.
In 1937, the two women's wings Sveriges moderata kvinnoförbund and Högerns Centrala Kvinnoråd were both united to form a single women's wing, later known as Moderate Women, under the leadership of Alexandra Skoglund, formerly chairperson of the Högerns Centrala Kvinnoråd.

Chairpersons