This was the first governmental committee of its kind, and was to have a large impact upon the educational system as well as gender roles and policy regarding women's rights in general in Sweden.
The conservative view was that females should be educated in the home for the home; that education and knowledge could destroy the feminine qualities that distinguished women from men and cause distaste in women for the role of wife and mother; and that the idea of equality could not interfere with the order established by God.
[1] In parallel, Population growth had created a large number of women who could not marry and were forced to support themselves with few means to do so.
In 1856, the novel Hertha by Fredrika Bremer caused a debate of women's educational rights which led to the foundation of the female seminary Högre lärarinneseminariet in 1861.
[1] The committee also recommended that women be allowed to attend university: this would once and for all answer the questions about the scientific ability of females.