Pester_Women's_Charitable_Society

Pester Women's Charitable Society

Pester Women's Charitable Society

First women's organization to be established in Hungary

The Pester Women's Charitable Society (Pesti Jótékony Nőegylet), founded in 1817 in Pest, was the first women's organization to form in Hungary.[1] It was a Christian organization.[2] In this organization middle and upper-class women worked together.[3] The organization provided welfare services.[4] It ended in 1892.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Judit Acsády, “Remarks on the History of Hungarian Feminism,” Hungarian Studies Review Special Volume: Women and Hungary (1999), published online at "Hungarian Studies Review, 1999". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-05-23..
  2. [2]
    H. Ellis (13 August 2014). Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000. Springer. pp. 114–. ISBN 978-1-137-34952-1.
  3. [3]
    Susan Zimmermann (2011). Divide, Provide, and Rule: An Integrative History of Poverty Policy, Social Policy, and Social Reform in Hungary Under the Habsburg Monarchy. Central European University Press. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-615-5053-19-1.
  4. [4]
    Katalin Fábián (14 October 2009). Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-0-8018-9405-3.
  5. [5]
    Alison S. Fell; Ingrid Sharp (15 May 2007). The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-230-01966-9.


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