On March 30th 1981, the day before the bill on abortion would be addressed by the Upper Chamber, women in the Netherlands went on strike. They laid down their paid and unpaid work that day in order to protest. The strike was against a number of issues, such as the deteriorating position of women, unemployment […]

Rosa Manus (1881-1942) was one of the founders of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in 1935. However, since 1994 it has become evident that Manus had already been busy with setting up such an archive from as early as 1930. In 1994, the IAV received microfilms from Moscow. These microfilms appeared to be part […]

In 1978, the photographer Bertien van Manen captured the lives of female immigrant workers.

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 […]