Bergman lived alone in a time when it was considered more suitable for a professional middle-class woman to share her flat with a female companion for modesty's sake.

The Hammarskjöld suggestion aroused anger among women's rights activists, who formed a support group for the Lindhagen motion.

On 4 June 1902, Föreningen för Kvinnans Politiska Rösträtt (FKPR) was founded: initially a local Stockholm society, it became a national organization (LKPR) the year after.

[1]Formally, Bergman was chairman 1914–1917, but in reality, she was pointed out as the central figure of the Swedish suffrage movement both by its members as well as by the press from the start.

She was a social democrat, described as firm and effective, and is referred to as the dominant force within the organisation's central committee and the brain behind its actions, collections and meetings.