Rosa Manus and Mia Boissevain took the initiative for the exhibition ‘Woman 1813-1913’ that took place at the country estate ‘Meerhuyzen’ in the current Amstelveen. For the organization of the exhibition, they established de Vereeniging Tentoonstelling ‘De Vrouw 1813-1913′ on the 22nd of May 1912. They had less than a year to organize the exhibition. […]

This intimate portrait of Gonnie Scholten was drawn by the artist Rie Knipscheer in 1986. Gonnie Scholten was born on April 29th 1906 in Spankeren aan de IJssel and died on February 22nd 2005 in Doorn. In the 1920s, she studied theology in Leiden. In 1931, she married Willem Scholten and had six children. She worked as an assistant […]

Within all religions, women have always offered resistance to the male perspective and the exclusion of women.

The idea of ​​the Dutch liberation skirt came from feminist and resistance fighter Mies Boissevain-van Lennep.

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.

There is a clear and significant difference between the propaganda resources which were created in the fight for women’s suffrage and those in, for example, the fight for the right on abortion during the so-called second feminist wave. This is clearly evident by comparing these brooches to a button with the text ‘Legalize abortion’! Atria has a silver applesauce […]

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 famous painter Isaac Israels painted Aletta Jacobs at least three times. This portrait was painted in 1919. His sister, Mathilde Cohen Tervaert-Israels (1864-1945), gave it to the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in 1936 on the occasion of its opening on December 19. Mathilde Cohen Tervaert-Israels was, among other things, president of the Vereniging Onderlinge […]