Martha Tynæs

[2] She was able to impact municipal policy-making in a variety of areas, including schools, living conditions, and facilities for children and the elderly.

In the Women's Federation, she helped to build up membership by establishing six new affiliates in the various districts of Christiania, leading to hundreds of new supporters.

[3] Tynæs was above all concerned with issues related to the working classes rather than those differentiating women from men, inspired by the writings of Ferdinand Lassalle, August Bebel, Karl Marx and Peter Kropotkin.

[1] Tynæs began to cut back on her responsibilities from 1918 owing to failing health, resigning from her chairmanship of the Women's Federation in 1920.

[2] Together with Gunhild Ziener and a number of the other early members, she founded Norway's Social Democratic Women's Federation (Norges Sosialdemokratiske Kvinneforbund) in 1922.