American Anthropologist and feminist Hanna Papanek died on Saturday December 16, 2017.

This beautiful drawing of Ribbius Peletier is made by Paul Citroen. In 1932, Peletier gave the orders to build a women’s training center (Vrouwen Vormingscentrum De Born) at her own cost.

Clara Meijers (1885-1964) had a dream: founding a bank for women. This vision, although altered, became reality in 1928. The Robaver opened a ‘women’s bank’ as a seperate branch.

C.M.L. Pardede-baroness van Boetzelaer (1912-2011) was an important woman during the Second World War. In 1942, she was co-founder of the Bond van Nederlandsche Vrouwen in Groot-Brittannië (Union of Dutch Women in Great-Britain). From 1940 until 1944 she had been connected to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had its seat in London at the time. […]

The famous medical doctor Aletta Jacobs was not the only female Jacobs who paved the way for other women. Her older sister Charlotte (1847-1916) became a pharmacist. In 1877, she started to study pharmacy, initially in Groningen and later in Amsterdam, where she graduated in 1881. Detail regulations S.O.V.I.A (1913), Collection IAV-Atria A couple of years later, in […]