Word: rossell
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Church? From Swedish women, accustomed to equality (only military service, the ministry and the governorship of counties still are banned to them), there came immediate and bitter reaction. By last week some 75 women - among them: 53-year-old Member of Parliament Sigrid Ekendahl, 47-year-old Agda Rossel. delegate to the U.N. Commission for Women's Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman, 69, a clergyman...