The Latvian Women’s National League has been founded in St. Petersburg in 1917 and it cared during 8 months for the people who fled or were evacuated from the Latvian Provinces of Russia during the First World War. Only in 1922 the league started to work in Latvia which emerged at the end of the war as an independent state. The goals of the league were written down in their statutes. They were: the education of the youth to love their homeland in a spirit of pride in the Nation and Statehood, the fight against alcoholism, the furthering of the education of women, the moral and financial help for female students, writers and scientists. To meet these goals the league founded living quarters, kindergartens and founded courses and a school for better weaving, they cared for the education of women who were in apprenticeship by presenting lectures and by proposing books and newspapers to be read. They fought for equal rights for women and men but in the same time they stressed the role of women as mothers and spouses and their role as guardian of the traditions for example needlework . The work of the league was organized in 8 sections 4 of which had to do with education. The section ‘’mother and child’’ cared about the health and the education of the newly- born. Families were visited in their homes or they could come and visit the rooms of the league to get information about the care and the nourishment of little children, they got lectures and literature was available. Medicine was distributed if necessary; children were examined and controlled by doctors. There was a section for industrial art with two year courses for weaving. Knitting courses for teachers, courses for sewing cloths, courses for knitting rugs and additional courses for weaving were important for apprenticeship and the private household. One section cared about the education that children should be brought up in a sane environment they should be educated to the right vision of life, to love their homeland. For the children of the needy 2 kindergartens have been founded. The section for education provided language courses for English, French and German. The league worked until summer 1940 when the Soviet Union took over power in Latvia and closed down all private institutions. From 1925 to 1940 the league has been guided by the journalist, poet and politician Berta Pīpiņa (1883-1942). She later became the vice-president of the International Union of Women. She was the first and only woman who had been elected in the ‘’interwar period’’ to the Latvian Parliament – the Saeima. Berta Pīpiņa was the mother of three children and had worked as a teacher in her youth. She united the different tasks of mother, spouse, worker and later-politician. She embodied a certain women’s-ideal which found its continuation with partly different goals in the movement of women’s emancipation.