Maria Cederschiöld

She was the chief editor of the foreign office at Aftonbladet in 1909–1921, and the first woman in Sweden to hold such a position at a Swedish newspaper.

After the death of her father in 1860, the family lived under reduced circumstances in the home of her maternal grandmother.

She was given the post partially through the influence of Anna Hierta-Retzius, a major stockholder at Aftonbladet and married to the editor at the time.

The women pioneers were generally treated with sympathy and interest, even by the men, perhaps because they normally did not regard them as dangerous competitors.

Between 1884 and 1900, she was the secretary of the Svenska Kvinnors Nationalförbund, the Swedish branch of the International Council of Women, and its vice chairperson from 1909 to 1919, and participated as the Swedish delegate in its congresses in London 1899, Paris (with Hilda Sachs) in 1900, Berlin 1904, and its board meetings in Dresden 1904 and Berlin 1912.