the goals of the union should represent them without regard to class or party. The other faction, led by Blagoeva and Konova, took the view that the union should be proletarianized and membership should be drawn from the working class. Pateva wrote a book about the problems, Разногласия в Българския женски съюз (Disagreement in the Bulgarian Women's Union), which was published in 1903. She also began writing for Женски глас (Women's Voice), a newspaper for which in 1904, she became an editor. Along with Penka Russeva-Belmustakova and Yordanka Guszova, in 1904, Pateva founded an educational group for women to attend language and literacy courses and to organize programs to improve access to professional and university study for women. They formalized the organization as, Самосъзнание (Self-Awareness), the following year, as an educational and charitable society and aligned it under the Bulgarian Women's Union, with Pateva designated as its chair. In the spring of 1905, she attended the Women's Union's Congress, held in Sofia and was tasked with using her position as editor of Женски глас to publish articles about the umbrella organization, soon to become their official media outlet. From 1907, Самосъзнание began offering general education courses, classes on tailoring and other trades, and running a sewing class for the Women's Labor Office. The year 1907 also saw women's suffrage become one of the official aims of the Bulgarian Women's Union. In 1908, Pateva represented Bulgarian Women's Union at the Fourth Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Amsterdam. She strongly petitioned for the acceptance of the Women's Union as a member of the IWSA, gaining approval from those who voted on it. In 1909, she published an article in the newspaper Ден (Day) arguing for women's emancipation and the next year, when the editorial offices of Женски глас moved to Sofia, she retained her position as editor. Also in 1908, Pateva published a second book, В помощ на жената (To Help Women), in which she called for a broad range of reforms. She recommended laws for the protection of children and women laborers, as well as maternity guidelines; for the creation of social institutions by the state that provided food, shelter, and nursery facilities for children of working women; policies against alcohol abuse and prostitution; for the protection of illegitimate children; and for social welfare laws that protected orphans, the infirm, and the unemployed. She insisted that women