Are Women Particularly Well Suited To Legislative Work?
The Centenary of Women’s Suffrage at the National Museum of Denmark

2015 marked the centenary of Women's Suffrage in Denmark. At the National Museum of Denmark celebrations of the centenary drew attention to an
important historical event, with the aid of new communication initiatives that
gave the participants a new and different kind of opportunity to experience
history up close. By using various means of communication and involving
a variety of target groups, the museum highlighted the importance of the Constitution of
1915 and raised the issue of present-day democracy. The reflection that democracy
is not something that is introduced overnight, and does not necessarily apply
to everyone from the beginning, was an important element in the National
Museum of Denmark’s celebration. In the educational event called "Oh, Brave New World – What am
I To Do With Democracy?" the museum gathered 600 high school students in an interactional event
with politicians, writers and speakers, and presented them with the
story of the development of democracy in Denmark. The pupils were
urged to take a critical view of their own role in society and to express views on
whether the voting age of 18 today is reasonable. The National Museum of Denmark
also marked the centenary of the change in the Constitution of 1915 with participation
in a suffrage march through the streets of Copenhagen, which,
like the suffrage march of 5th June 1915, celebrated women’s achievement
of voting rights to Parliament and thus brought history to life for a day.