Hilma Räsänen
{{short description|Finnish politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hilma Räsänen
| image = File:Hilma-Rasanen-1907.jpg
| office1 = Member of Parliament
| term1 = 1907–1908
| constituency1 = East Vyborg
| party = Agrarian League
| birth_date = 28 March 1877
| birth_place = Kuopio, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|1|20|1877|3|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Vihti, Finland
}}
Hilma Sohvi Räsänen (28 March 1877 – 20 January 1955) was a Finnish educator and politician. A member of the Agrarian League, she was elected to Parliament in 1907 as one of the first group of female MPs. She remained an MP until the following year.
Biography
Räsänen was born in Kuopio in 1877.[https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911406.aspx Hilma Räsänen] Parliament of Finland Between 1900 and 1907 she worked as a primary school teacher in Sippola, Kuopion maalaiskunta, Jämsä and Viipuri Province. She was also a speaker for the Temperance movement and the Naisasialiitto Unioni.[http://www.helsinki.fi/sukupuolentutkimus/aanioikeus/en/articles/first.htm The first women Members of Parliament in Finland, 1907-1908] University of Helsinki
She contested the 1907 elections on the Agrarian League's list in East Vyborg and was one of 19 women elected to parliament. However, she lost her seat in the 1908 elections. During her time in parliament she sat on the Grand Committee.
After leaving parliament, she worked as a primary school teacher in Helsinki between 1908 and 1917, after which she became a writer. She also managed a women's rest home in Askola. She died in Vihti in 1955.
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Category:Politicians from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Category:Centre Party (Finland) politicians
Category:Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–1908)
Category:Finnish schoolteachers
Category:Women members of the Parliament of Finland