Mietje Hoitsema


Maria Wilhelmina Hendrika "Mietje" Hoitsema (1847–1934) was a Dutch feminist.

Mietje Hoitsema
Mietje Rutgers-Hoitsema at the International Congress of Women, Berlin, 1904
Born
Maria Wilhelmina Hendrika Hoitsema

(1847-07-10)10 July 1847
Britsum, The Netherlands
Died25 October 1934(1934-10-25) (aged 87)
Rijswijk, The Netherlands
NationalityDutch
OccupationSuffragist
Spouse(s)
Johannes Rutgers
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(m. after 1885, died in)​

Personal life

Mietje Hoitsema was born on 10 July 1847 in Britsum.[1] She was the daughter of the theologian Synco Hoitsema (1799–1860) and Rika van Bolhuis (1808–1895) and married the doctor Johannes Rutgers (1850–1924) in 1885.[2] She became a teacher in 1865 and was the principal of a girls' school from 1873-1885.[1] She was injured in a car accident in 1913 and withdrew from public life in 1918.[1]

Hoitsema died on October 25, 1934 in Rijswijk.[2]

Career

In 1894 Mietje Hoitsema became chairperson of the local Rotterdam branch of the Dutch women suffrage union (Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht). She founded an association to support the rights of women, children and working families (1895) and an association for the support of unmarried mothers (1898) and an association for the rights of professional women (1903). She was also a member of the Malthusian League, which fought for the rights for sex education and birth control.[3]

Hoitsema joined the Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij (SDAP) (Social Democratic Workers' Party) at the turn of the century. She left the SDAP in 1905 as the party prioritized elimination of class difference over gender differences as well as the SDAP's abandonment of advocacy of women's voting rights.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Hoitsema, Maria Wilhelmina Hendrika". Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland (BWSA). Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  2. "Hoitsema, Maria Wilhelmina Hendrika (1847-1934)". Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch). 4 October 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  3. "Mietje Rutgers-Hoitsema". Atria (in Dutch). 19 August 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
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