uffrage League.

The origin of the woman's rights movement in Denmark is also literary,--to
Frederika Bremer in Sweden, Aasta Hansteen and Clara Collett in Norway,
must be added as emancipators, Mathilda Fibiger and Pauline Worm in
Denmark. The writings of both of these women in favor of
emancipation,--"Clara Raphael's Letters" and "Sensible People,"--date back
as far as 1848; they were inspired by the liberal ideas prevailing in
Germany previous to the "March Revolution." An _organized_ woman's rights
movement did not come into being until twenty-five years later. A liberal
parliamentary majority in Denmark abolished, in 1857, male guardianship
over unmarried women; and in 1859 established the equal inheritance
rights of daughters, thus following the example of Sweden and Norway. It
was necessary first to secure the support of public opinion through a
literary discussion of woman's rights. This was carried on between 1868
and 1880 by Georg Brandes, who translated John Stuart Mill's _The
Subjection of Women_, and by Bjoernson and Ibsen. In 1871 Representative
Bajer and his wife organized the first woman's rights society, the "Danish
Woman's Club," which rapidly spread throughout Denmark. At first the Club
endeavored to secure a more thorough education for women, and therefore
labored for the improvement of the girls' high schools, and for the
institution of coeducational schools. In 1876 it secured the admission of
women to the University of Copenhagen.

In the teaching profession women are employed in greater numbers, and are
better paid than in Sweden at the present time. There are 3003 women
elementary school teachers and 2240 women teachers in the high schools. As
yet there are no women lecturers or professors in the university.[64]
Since 1860, women have filled subordinate positions in the postal and
telegraph services, and since 1889 they have also filled the higher
positions; there are in all 1500 women employees. The subordinate
positions in the national and local administrations are to a certain
extent open to them. The number of women engaged in industrial pursuits is
47,617; the number of domestic servants, 89,000. The domestic servants are
organized only to a limited extent (800 being organized). The women in the
industries are better organized,--chiefly in the same trade-unions as the
men. In 1899 the women comprised one fifth of the total number of
organized laborers; since then this proportion has increas