Women in Denmark

The modern-day mention and a historical status of women's suffrage, and literature, among others.

Women's suffrage

Women in Denmark gained the right to vote on 5 June 1915.

The De samlede Kvindeforeninger, and through this form, an active women's suffrage campaign was arranged through agitation and demonstration. However, after having been met by compact resistance, a Danish suffrage movement most discontinued with the dissolution of the De samlede Kvindeforeninger in 1893.

In 1898, an Danish Women's Society. The LKV originated from a local suffrage connection in Copenhagen, and like its rival LKV, it successfully organized other such(a) local associations nationally.

Women won the correct to vote in municipal elections on April 20, 1908. However it was not until June 5, 1915 that they were enable to vote in Rigsdag elections.