The women's movement in Luxembourg started in 1906 with the foundation of the liberal Association for Women's Interests (Verein für die Interessen der Frau/ Association pour la Défense des Intérêts de la Femme) under Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert, and the conservative Luxembourg Catholic Women's League (Luxemburger Katolische Frauenbund/Alliance des Femmes Luxembourgeoises),[2] but there was no national women's organization.
The purpose of the organization was to improve the rights of women in the civil code.
During the 1920s, the women's movement saw many improvements for women in Luxembourg, although these were less about legal reforms but rather about new professions opening up to women through individual precedence cases: Marcelle Dauphin becomes Luxembourg's first practising dentist in 1922, Louise Welter first female GP in 1923, Lory Koster the first female athlete to represent Luxembourg at the Olympic Games in 1924, and Netty Probst being approved as a lawyer in 1927.
[3] The women's movement in Luxembourg was interrupted during the war, but re-emerged and formed many new organizations in the late 1940s.
However, it was not until the 1960s that actual legal reforms regarding the position of women took place in Luxembourg.