All Dutch women organizations assisted during the 1953 flooding. From a scrapbook, it becomes evident how much aid the Federatie voor Vrouwelijke Vrijwillige Hulpverlening (Federation for Female Voluntary Aid) offered at the time.

The term ‘women’s aid’ may have been invented in the 1970s, but many years earlier individual women and women’s organizations had already been active in this area. An initiative in this field from the beginning of the twentieth century, is the Vereniging Zusterhulp (Association Sister’s Aid). The founders, J. van Riemsdijk-van der Leeuw and H.W. Spiering, aimed […]

This is a poster made by Feminist publisher De Bonte Was (Colored Wash) for a stand on the Emancipade, an event held from the 20th of May until the 8th of June 1975 in Utrecht. Foundation De Bonte Was was founded in 1974, and evolved from women’s discussion groups in the Women’s Center in Amsterdam. The women […]

Throughout the years there has been much singing and poetry writing by women in the women’s movement. Almost every archive contains some kind of ‘union song’. Just like in Josephine Sare Rosine Baerveldt-Haver’s archive. In Atria’s library you can find many published song books. This image is from the struggle for women’s suffrage. Collection Josephine Sare Rosine […]

A page from the Liber Amicarum, a gift for the American Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) in 1929, in celebration of her 70th birthday. Carrie Chapman Catt was a famous advocate for women’s suffrage and she received this album from her women’s suffrage friends all over the world. After the Second World War, she donated it to the […]

On the 23rd of January 1937, a special dinner took place in Utrecht. It was organized by the Jongeren Werkcomité of the Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Vrouwenbelangen en Gelijk Staatsburgerschap (Youth section of the Dutch Association for Women’s interests and Equal Citizenship). We do not know for sure, but it is possible that the women present […]

The Kenau foundation was founded in 1981, with the aim of increasing the physical and mental resistance of women and girls by teaching them self-defence and martial arts.

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.