Education
Emilia Broomé was raised in Jönköping, where she studied at the local girls school. She was given her professional degree at Wallinska skolan in 1883 and graduated in philosophy and medicine in Uppsala in 1884.
Emilia Broomé was raised in Jönköping, where she studied at the local girls school. She was given her professional degree at Wallinska skolan in 1883 and graduated in philosophy and medicine in Uppsala in 1884.
She was the first woman in the Swedish legislative assembly (1914). She was the chairman of Stockholmsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt (The Stockholm Branch of the Society for Woman Suffrage) from its foundation in 1902 until 1906. She was also chairman of the Peace union of the women of Sweden, from the year she founded it in 1898 until it merged with the Swedish peace union in 1911, and acted as Sweden"s representative at the international peace conference in Haag in 1899.
Emilia Broomé was nominated for the election to the Stockholm City Council in 1910 and in 1911.
She was elected to the city council during the latter election and served 1911–1924. She was chairman of the liberal women 1917-1920.
Emilia Broomé was the first Swedish woman to have been a part of the Swedish state legislative committee (Lagberedningen), which prepared for new laws and in which she served as a member in 1914-1918.