the 1880s. She expressed her liberal views regarding religion as a speaker, and published a work on this issue: Skolans ställning till religionsundervisningen i Sverige och andra länder (The Position of the School regarding the teaching of Religion in Sweden and other nations). At that time, the subject of religion in school education normally only consisted of education of the student in their own religion, that of the state, and nothing else. Whitlock opposed this and made the subject voluntary in her school. She was active as a speaker on geography at the Stockholms arbetarinstitut (Stockholm Workers' Institute) from 1882 to 1897. She was also a member of the board of the association, Frisinnade kvinnor (now Svenska Kvinnors Vänsterförbund) in 1914–1923. Whitlock was an early member of the women's association Nya Idun, founded in 1885, and one of its first committee members. Whitlock is one of the leading pioneers of the women's suffrage movement in Sweden. She was one of the co-founders of the National Association for Women's Suffrage. In 1902, two motions regarding women suffrage reform were presented to the Swedish Parliament. One was from the Minister of Justice Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who suggested that married men be given two votes, as they could be regarded to vote in place of their wives as well. The other motion was presented by Carl Lindhagen, who suggested women's suffrage. The Hammarskjöld suggestion aroused anger among women's rights activists, who formed a support group for the Lindhagen motion. On 4 June 1902, National Association for Women's Suffrage (Föreningen för Kvinnans Politiska Rösträtt) or FKPR was founded: initially a local Stockholm society, it became a national organization the year after. She was a member of the board and served as chairperson twice: in 1903–1907 and 1911–1912. She wrote the first public appeal to the women of Sweden to form a suffrage movement in the press, and she organized the rules of the association. She had a very good relation to her vice chairperson, Signe Bergman, and was respected for her ability to, though personally a liberal, maintain the political neutrality of the association. In 1911, when the suffrage movement was forced to make a political stand against the Conservatives, because their party was by then the only one to oppose women suffrage, the conservative Lydia Wahlström stepped down as chairperson: it was because of the respected ability to be neutral that Whitlock was elected