Kerstin Hesselgren

Overview

Kerstin Hesselgren born Torsåker, Sweden January 14, 1872 (d. 1962). Called "Kerstin the First": first woman elected to upper house of Swedish parliament, 1922. Delegate to ILO, 1919; Swedish delegate to the League of Nations; opposed Italy's war on Ethiopia, 1935; member of first international committee on status of women, 1937.

Quotations

"How could women wish to bear children in a world that is so hopeless, so insecure!" (July 3, 1935, League Social Comm., in Feminism and Motherhood, p. 171, Allen; 1938 photo Wikipedia)