Margareta Beijer (1625–1675) was the managing director of the Swedish Post Office, ''Postverket'' from 1669 until 1673.Mansdominans i förändring: om ledningsgrupper och styrelser : betänkande Av Sverige Utredningen om kvinnor på ledande poster i näringslivet, Stockholm, 2003 She was the fourth director of the Swedish Post Office, and the second female postmaster in Sweden after

Gese Wechel Gese Wechel (born in Hamburg, died in Lübeck 1645), was the managing director of the Swedish Post Office, ''Postverket'' from 1637 until 1642. She was the second director of the Swedish Post Office, and the first female postmaster in Sweden, entit ...

, entitled ''Sveriges rikes postmästarinna'' (Postmistress of the Swedish Realm). She succeeded her spouse, Johan von Beijer, after his death in 1669. From 1637 until 1722, eight percent (or 40) of the postmasters in Sweden were female. Women were excluded from service in the new regulation of 1722, and allowed again in 1863.

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* Ingemar Lundkvist, Cirkeln är sluten för brevet, Under Strecket, SvD, 16 maj 2007. * Forssell, Nils: Svenska Postverkets Historia, Stockholm, 1936. * Mansdominans i förändring: om ledningsgrupper och styrelser : betänkande Av Sverige Utredningen om kvinnor på ledande poster i näringslivet, Stockholm, 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Beijer, Margareta 1625 births 1675 deaths 17th-century Swedish people Postmasters general of Sweden 17th-century Swedish women People from the Swedish Empire 17th-century civil servants