:Jónína Jónatansdóttir

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Jónína Jónatansdóttir (Vikuútgáfa Alþýðublaðsins).png

| name =

| birth_date = 22 May 1869

| death_date = 1 December 1946

| office = Member of the Reykjavík City Council

| termstart = 1920

| termend = 1922

| party = Social Democratic Party

}}Jónína Jónatansdóttir (22 May 1869 – 1 December 1946) was a labor leader and local representative in Reykjavík from 1922 to 1924.

Life and career

Jónína was born 22 May 1869 in Gullbringusýsla County in what is now Garðabær.{{cite news |url=http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=4940817 |title=Frú Jónína Jónatansdóttir |date=26 March 1931 |work=Vikuútgáfa Alþýðublaðsins |access-date=29 July 2019 |publisher=Alþýðuflokkurinn |issue=23 |volume=5 |language=is |issn=2251-4252 |id=Gegnir: [//leitir.is/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GEGNIR&docId=ICE01_PRIMO000434512 000434512] |via=timarit.is}}{{cite news |url=https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1422829/ |title=Jónína Jónatansdóttir |date=22 March 2012 |work=mbl.is |access-date=30 July 2019 |publisher=Árvakur hf. |language=is}} She later moved to Reykjavík where she became a vocal proponent for Women's rights. There, she soon joined the Icelandic Women's Rights Association in 1910.

Her political activities began in 1912, when she started organizing a labor union for women. On 21 April 1913, at a meeting of the Women's Rights Association, she spoke out to say the group needed to do something to improve women's working conditions.{{cite news |url=https://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=992836 |title=Verkakvennafélagið aldarfjórðungsgamalt |date=10 November 1939 |work=Alþýðublaðið |access-date=30 July 2019 |issue=263 |volume=20 |language=is |issn=1021-8203 |id=Gegnir: [//leitir.is/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GEGNIR&docId=ICE01_PRIMO000434510 000434510] |via=timarit.is}} Two years later on 25 October 1914,{{cite news |url=http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=2333601&lang=en |title=50 ára afmæli Verkakvennafélagsins Framsóknar |author=Vilhjálmur S. Vilhjálmsson |date=5 November 1964 |work=Alþýðublaðið |access-date=30 July 2019 |issue=23 |volume=5 |pages=8–10 |language=is |issn=1021-8203 |id=Gegnir: [//leitir.is/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GEGNIR&docId=ICE01_PRIMO000434510 000434510] |via=timarit.is}}{{cite web |title=Verkakvennafélagið Framsókn |url=http://www.konurogstjornmal.is/atburdir/verkakvennafelagid-framsokn/ |website=Konur og stjórnmál |access-date=30 July 2019 |language=is}} she founded {{ill|Working Women's Society Progress|is|Verkakvennafélagið Framsókn}} ("Progress"), the first union for women in the history of Iceland. Jónína Jónatansdóttir was selected as the union's first chair, a position she would remain in for the next twenty years.

The same year she founded Progress, Jónína was placed second on the {{Interlanguage link|1908–1916 Reykjavík Women's list|lt=women's list of municipal candidates|is|Kvennaframboð í Reykjavík 1908–1916}} for the Reykjavík City Council.

With Progress, Jónína also helped to found the Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASI) as well as its political arm; the Social Democratic Party (SDP). While serving on its board in 1920, she became the first woman elected to the Reykjavík City Council under the SDP's banner for a term to end in 1922. By 26 May 1931, she was listed fourth among the party's candidates for the Althing (the Icelandic parliament) under {{iLL|Jón Baldvinsson|is}}.

On 1 December 1946, Jónína died.

:Jónína Jónatansdóttir

Life and career

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