Clara Mimi Meijers (27 August 1885 – 13 October 1964) was a Dutch banker, writer, and feminist.
[3] Her first plans for a Dutch women's bank failed due to World War I, but in the 1920s she tried again to get it off the ground.
[3] During the war, many women had been given jobs and wanted to be able to arrange their own finances, so she presented her idea to her employer, Robaver, and on 3 November 1928, the bank opened 'The Branch Office for Female Clients of Robaver' on the Rokin canal in Amsterdam with Meijers as a director.
[1] With the establishment of the new branch, many women, including those who were unmarried, widowed or students, could open an account and manage it themselves.
In addition to her work as a bank director, Meijers gave many lectures on financial security for women.
"[2] Her lending practice, "to grant credit to women without means who wanted to start their own company," has been cited as one of the first examples of microfinancing.
She moved to various addresses, but in November 1943, she was forced to go to the Westerbork transit camp in the northeastern Netherlands from which she was deported on 4 September 1944 to Czechoslovakia.
In 1948 she wrote "the second part of From mother to daughter of Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot with extensive chapters on the National Exhibition of Women's Labor of 1898, the suffrage struggle, the exhibition called The Woman 1813-1913, access to education and social developments.