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Local research regarding women's contribution to municipal policy is very small. The majority ofresearch focuses on welfare expansion during the early 20th century and only mentions the role ofwomen in some subchapters in their research. Other researchers have mentioned that there is relativelylittle local research that puts women in focus regarding municipal work and that women need to bemapped more clearly. This essay decided to focus on the early 1950's as its starting point and lookdeeper into the women in the city council. With the help of municipal archive materials such as Lists ofMembers and Documents in the City Council, does this thesis aim to investigate what the representationof men and women looked like before and after the election in 1950 in Karlstad municipality? Whattypes of committees did the female city council members participate in? And what issues did the womenin the city council raise in their motions? This was also interesting to contrast with the gender contract. What this case study came to was that the women were very underrepresented in the city council andthey usually behaved in various assignments which meant that they did not break the gender contract.However, some of the women had broken away from the traditional patterns. It turned out, however, thatthe women in the various committees were usually very few, it was usually only a single woman whohad a place in each committee, which indicates that the women were side-by-side in differentcommittees. The motions that the women in the City Council highlighted also pointed out that a genderdistribution, where the women usually worked with only women regarding issues that were expected tobe women's issues.