Maria Baers

Maria Baers
Victoire Cappe [fr] (left) and Maria Baers
Member of the Belgian Senate
In office
30 June 1936 – 12 March 1954[1]
Personal details
Born
Maria Gabriella Baers

(1883-09-20)20 September 1883
Antwerp, Belgium
Died30 December 1959(1959-12-30) (aged 76)
Brussels, Belgium
Political partyChristian Social Party (CSP) (1945-)
Catholic Union of Belgium [nl] (KVB) (-1936)

Maria Gabriella Baers (20 September 1883 – 30 December 1959) was a Belgian senator, feminist, and trade unionist. Baers was the founder of Nationaal Verbond der Christelijke Vrouwengilden (National Union of Christian Women's Guilds. nowadays: Femma [nl]).[2] In 1936, Baers and Maréchal [nl] were the first women senators in Belgium.[3] In 1945, she became the first women Secretary of the Senate, and the first chairwomen of a parliamentary commission.[4]

  1. ^ "Maria Baers". ODIS.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Vierde feministische golf". Rosa - Kenniscentrum voor gender en feminisme (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Eerste feministische golf". Rosa - Kenniscentrum voor gender en feminisme (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ^ Payne 2015, p. 5.