Movimento Democrático de Mulheres

[1] The MDM was created at a time of the flourishing of radical movements worldwide, including the opposition to the Vietnam War in the United States and the May 68 anti-government protests in Paris.

It was initially started as women's electoral committees, which were set up to campaign in the 1969 Portuguese legislative election.

After the elections, those involved in the anti-government movement agreed to continue working together to campaign for "better wages, better living conditions and equal rights" as well as to oppose the Portuguese Colonial War, government censorship and arbitrary arrests by the political police.

Two days after the 25 April 1974 Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the Estado Novo, the MDM delivered these demands to the National Salvation Junta, which had taken over government.

[1][2] At this meeting there were concerns expressed that the new Constituent Assembly, formed to develop a new Constitution for the country, was not addressing women's issues.