Kommittén för ökad kvinnorepresentation (Literary: 'The committee for increased women's representation'), also known as Den ökade ('The Increasing') for short, was a Swedish women's association, founded in 1937.
In 1927 the Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund founded the campaign group Föreningen Kvinnolistan to campaign for an increased representation of women in political office by supporting their own female independent candidates in the 1928 election, without much success.
[1] The situation was similar in Denmark, where the Dansk Kvindesamfund founded the campaign group Kvinders politiske Samraad under Ingrid Larsen to address the issue in 1936.
[2] The Kommittén för ökad kvinnorepresentation was founded on the initiative of the Fredrika Bremer Association.
Its members included Hanna Rydh (Chairperson during the entire existence of the organization) and Axianne Thorstensson, described as the two leading members, as well as Karin Kock, Alva Myrdal and the secretaries Brita Åkerman Johansson, Birgitta von Hofsten and Astrid Westergren.