Lizzy van Dorp
Dutch politician and economist, editor (1872–1945)
Elisabeth Carolina van Dorp (5 September 1872 – 6 September 1945) was a Dutch lawyer, economist, parliamentarian and feminist.
Life
Elisabeth Carolina van Dorp, often shortened to Lizzy, was the daughter of Adriana Elisabeth Verdam and Gerard Carel Théophilus van Dorp.
Van Dorp studied law at Leiden University. She became the first chairwoman of the Association of Female Students in Leiden, founded in 1900, and she became the first woman in the Netherlands to obtain a law degree in 1901. On 7 July 1903, she obtained her doctorate from Prof. J. Oppenheim for her thesis titled, Indemnification upon destruction or disabling of property by public authorities, which argued against a ban on the labor of married women.
She then practised private law, and gained international recognition in October 1903 as the first female attorney to appear before the Supreme Court. She also became active in various feminist movements, although she opposed the more radical forms of feminism—her focus was on instituting female suffrage.
In 1915, she was invited to join the editorial team of De Economist, a leading Dutch economics journal. In that capacity, she joined five male editors.
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