Stockholm Public Women's Club is founded in…
July 1891 CE
Stockholms allmänna kvinnoklubb is referred to as the foundation of the women's organization within the social democratic worker's movement in Sweden.
It will be the first social democratic women's club to be officially a part of the party, and the first of many local clubs of the same kind.
In 1888, the first social democratic women's club, Kvinnliga arbetarklubben, had been founded by Elma Danielsson in Malmö, followed by other local clubs, but non of them were officially a part of the party, and never became more than temporary.
Though women were made members of the Swedish Social Democratic Party its foundation in 1889, women's issues were not regarded a specific issue separated from the class issue, and no women's association is given much encouragement.
On 11 June 1892, a meeting is held in Stockholm by a group of female social democrats to address this.
The opening speaker is Emilie Rathou, who had been the first female May Day speaker the previous year.
Rathou had co-founded of Stockholms allmänna kvinnoklubb with a group of women consisting of Alina Jägerstedt (who had made sure women were included as party members in 1889), Lotten Jäderlund, Elsa Löfgren, Elin Engström, Gertrud Månsson and Anna Söderberg among others
They were soon joined by known profiles such as Kata Dalström, Anna Sterky, Anna Lindhagen and Amanda Horney.
The Club will organize the social democratic women within the Swedish working class movement by establishing local women's clubs and enlisting working women in the trade unions.