Lega promotrice degli interessi femminili ('League for the Promotion of the Interests of Women') was an Italian organization for women's rights, founded in Milan in December 1880.
[1] Short-lived, it nevertheless played a pioneering role in the history of the organized women's movement in Italy.
[3] It was allied with the Unione delle Lavoranti (Female Worker's Union) for petty bourgeois and working-class women and included both upper class and working-class women in its Executive Committee.
[4] The League campaigned for legal code and working conditions and included such issues as equal pay and paternity searches,[5] and campaigned unsuccessfully for the introduction of local suffrage in Milan.
[6] The League became a pioneer role model, and was swiftly followed by new women's organizations formed in other Italian cities.