Eva Andén
Eva Johanna Andén (23 April 1886 – 26 March 1970) was a Swedish lawyer.[1] She became the first woman member of the Swedish Bar Association on 14 March 1918.[2]
Life
Eva Andén was born to the merchant Heribert Andén and Elin Forssman.
In 1907, she became a law student at the
Eva Andén had a successful career until her death, and was particularly engaged in cases of divorce, allowance and other cases involving women and children. Barbro Alving, Selma Lagerlöf and Astrid Lindgren were among her clients. She was a member of the government's state legal committee which advised the government in the law reforms regarding women and children, which underwent major reforms during the year in which women's suffrage was introduced, and she contributed to the reforms in which the rights of children out of wedlock were strengthened (1917) and the reformed marriage law in which married women were freed from the legal guardianship of their husbands in 1920–1921.[3]
She often contributed articles in the press, regarding the law and women's rights in issues of marriage, inheritance, abortion and prostitution. During the 1920s and 1930s she was a regular contributor to the
She never married, but lived with the legal secretary
See also
- First women lawyers around the world
References
- ^ Magnus Ullman: Kvinnliga pionjärer verksamma i Sverige
- ^ Eva Andén at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
- ^ Eva Johanna Andén, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/EvaAnden, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (artikel av Elsa Trolle Önnerfors), hämtad 2019-03-31.
- ^ "Tidevarvsgruppen (The Age Group), Fogelstad-gruppen (The Fogelstad Group) and the newspaper Tidevarvet (The Age.)". Hjördis Levin's homepage. Archived from the original on 28 August 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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