Four women changed Norway forever—and you've probably never heard their names.
11 JUNE 2013 is one hundred years since Norwegian women got full voting rights on an equal basis with men. Norway was among the first countries in the world to introduce universal suffrage for both women and men. The work for universal suffrage for women went on for many years and was an issue that many people got involved in. The Voting Rights Committee has chosen to highlight four women who played a decisive role in the suffrage issue.
Acting
Four performers resurrect forgotten radicals with quiet fire.
Writing
Condenses decades of struggle into 26 tight minutes.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Norway's 1913 suffrage made it only the fourth independent nation with full women's voting rights, yet this achievement rarely appears in global feminist timelines dominated by UK and US narratives.
Gina Krog, the 'mother of the women's movement,' founded Norway's first women's rights association in 1884—nearly thirty years before victory.
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