Career
In 1896, she became the first woman in Hungary to receive a degree from the Faculty of Philosophy in the Budapest State University, after having been the first woman admitted to a Hungarian university. Alongside Rosika Schwimmer, she is counted as one of the two leading figures in the Hungarian Women"s Movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century. Vilma Glücklich was the first woman to attend the University in Budapest and Hungary, and the first to graduate from one in 1896.
She worked as a teacher.
From 1902, she was active in trade union work, and soon after in the women"s movement. In 1913, she and Rosika Schwimmer hosted the 7th congress of the International Alliance for Women Suffrage in Budapest.
During World War I, she was active in the pacifist movement. She became on of two females active in the democratic regime in 1918.
Because of this, she was deprived of her work and exiled in 1921, after which she emigrated to Switzerland.