Ulla Dahlerup (born 1942) is a Danish journalist, writer and women's rights activist.
She was one of the most prominent members of the Danish Red Stocking Movement in the early 1970s, an episode she used as a basis for her 1979 novel Søstrene (The Sisters).
Despite her continued interest in folk high schools, Dahlerup did not matriculate as a student but spent a year in Switzerland after taking the realeksam.
She then worked in a variety of unskilled jobs before becoming a freelance journalist, translator and author.
[3] In 1963, she had already come into the limelight after suggesting in a television programme that all teenage girls should be allowed to have a diaphragm for birth control without their parents consent, until then only issued to those over 18.