This poster with seventeen professions in which women were not employed, or only very rarely, was shown on the Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid (National Exhibition of Women’s Labor) which was held in The Hague in 1898. Around the year 1900, women’s labor had a low standing in all social classes. Paid work was even taboo for […]

The feminist and journalist Welmoet Wijnaendts Francken-Dyserinck (1879-1956) has often been called the counterpart of Aletta Jacobs.

In 1911, Emilie Knappert (1860-1952) founded a society in Leiden named ‘de Vereniging Buitenbedrijf’. Her aim was to encourage young women from working-class families to go outside during their weekends to pursue various outdoor activities. In 1917 enough money was raised to ask the young architect Berlage, who was a friend of Knappert, to draw up the blueprints […]

Atria has various beautiful banners carried by women during women’s suffrage demonstrations. This particular banner from the Alkmaar section is the largest in the collection. It was not self-evident that banners were carried. Large groups of women felt hesitant to speak in public or to take to the streets to propagandize the good cause, let alone […]