Armi Hallstén-Kallia 1897-1956

Armi Hallstén-Kallia was a Finnish feminist. She was the head of the Finnish Women’s Association in 1937–1955.
She was elected president of the Finnish Women’s Association in 1936, succeeding her mother, a position she held until her death. She was also a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Finnish Academic Women’s Association. Like her brother, Hallstén-Kallia was active in the ICL and edited the foreign section of the magazine Ajan Suunta from 1937 to 1939. She was also chairman of the Karelian Society of Academic Women from 1939 to 1942. During the war years, she was an official in the Government Information Centre and was a member of the leadership of the Women’s Work Readiness League. After the war, Hallstén-Kallia served as foreign secretary of the Mannerheim Child Welfare League from 1947 to 1949 and from 1951 as secretary of the Finnish commission of the World Health Organization (WHO). She was also chairman of the board of the Finnish NNKY League from 1949.