International Socialist Women's Conferences

During the period of the Second International several International Socialist Women's Conferences were held by the representatives of the women organizations of the affiliated Socialist parties. The first two were held in conjunction with the main International Congresses of the Second International, while the third was held in Berne in 1915. The Conferences were notable for popularizing International Women's Day and were forerunners of groups like the Socialist International Women and the Women's International Democratic Federation.

The impetus for the first International Conference of Socialist Women came from a Congress of German women in 1906, which suggested that a conference of Socialist women should be held in conjunction with the following years International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart. On August 17, 1907 58 delegates from 15 countries met at the Leiderhalle in Stuttgart. Representatives were present from the Social Democratic Women of Germany, the Executive Committee of the Women of the Empire of Austria, the National Federation of Women Socialists of Belgium, Social Democratic Women's Clubs of the Netherlands, the Sewing Women's Union of Amsterdam, Federation of Swiss Workwomen's Societies of Switzerland, Socialist Women's Committee of Paris, the Independent Labour Party of Great Britain, Women's Labour League of England, the Women's Committee of the Social Democratic Federation, Women's National Progressive League of United States, the Social Democratic Party of Finland, Federation of Swedish Women Workers, Socialist Woman periodical in the United States and the National Federation of Women Workers from Britain. The conference set up a secretariat to be located at Stuttgart and Klara Zetkins newspaper Die Gleichheit was adopted as the organ for common publication of the affiliates. Zetkin was appointed Secretary of the permanent organization.

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