This is a chronological list of women's conferences. JANE HUNT HOUSE

19th century

Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca ...

, 1848, Seneca Falls, New York, first women's rights convention *

Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848 The Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848 met on August 2, 1848 in Rochester, New York. Many of its organizers had participated in the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, two weeks earlier in Seneca Falls, a small ...

, Rochester, New York *

National Women's Rights Convention The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Conventio ...

, 1850, Worcester, Massachusetts, first of an annual series *

Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850 The Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850 met on April 19–20, 1850 in Salem, Ohio, a center for reform activity. It was the third in a series of women's rights conventions that began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. It was the first ...

, Salem, Ohio * Worcester Women's Rights Convention of 1851, Worcester, Massachusetts, second in the series * Syracuse Women's Rights Convention of 1852, Syracuse, New York, third in the series * Cleveland Women's Rights Convention of 1853, Cleveland, Ohio, fourth in the series * Philadelphia Women's Rights Convention of 1854, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifth in the series * Cincinnati Women's Rights Convention of 1855, Cincinnati, Ohio, sixth in the series * New York Women's Rights Convention of 1856, New York, seventh in the series * New York Women's Rights Convention of 1858, New York, eighth in the series * New York Women's Rights Convention of 1860, New York, ninth in the series * First Woman's National Loyal League Convention, 1863, New York, organized to abolish slavery * New York Women's Rights Convention of 1866, New York, eleventh in the series * Washington Women's Rights Convention of 1869, Washington, D.C., twelfth in the series *

International Congress of Women The International Congress of Women was created so that groups of existing women's suffrage movements could come together with other women's groups around the world. It served as a way for women organizations across the nation to establish formal ...

, general heading used since 1878 with the International Congress of Women's Rights, Paris * Jewish Women's Congress, 1893, Chicago, Illinois * First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, 1895, Boston, Massachusetts

20th century

* First Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1902, Washington, D.C. * Second Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1904, Berlin, Germany *

Third Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Third Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1906. The Canadian National Association had been revived and had become a member. New national associations had been formed ...

, 1906, Copenhagen, Denmark *

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 ...

, series of conferences beginning in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907 *

Fourth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Fourth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was held from 15 - 21 June 1908, at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Fourth Congress numbered thirteen countries at its opening, including delegates from the recently form ...

, 1908, Amsterdam * Fifth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1909, London * Second International Socialist Women's Conference, 1910, Copenhagen, Denmark *

Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros The Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros () are a series conferences which began in 1981 to develop transnational networks within the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The main focus of the conferences was to discuss and evaluat ...

series of on-going conferences to discuss the role of feminism (1981-) *

Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was held in June 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden. It was led by the organization's president, Carrie Chapman Catt. The proceedings were inaugurated on Sunday, 11 June in the Gustaf Vasa C ...

, 1911, Stockholm, Sweden *

Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance The Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance met in Budapest, Hungary, 15–21 June 1913. As had been the case with all the preceding International Woman Suffrage Alliance conferences, the location had been chosen to refle ...

, 1913, Budapest, Hungary * Third International Socialist Women's Conference, 1915, Berne, Switzerland *

Women at the Hague Women at the Hague was an International Congress of Women conference held at The Hague, Netherlands in April 1915. It had over 1,100 delegates and it established an International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP) with Jane Addams as pr ...

, 1915, international conference in The Hague, Netherlands * Informal International Socialist Women's Conference, 1917, Stockholm, Sweden * Congress of Allied Women on War Service, international congress held Paris in August 1918 *

Inter-Allied Women's Conference The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States) opened in Paris on 10 February 1919. It was convened parallel to the Paris Peace Conference to introduce women's issue ...

, February–April 1919, parallel conference to the

Paris Peace Conference Agreements and declarations resulting from meetings in Paris include: Listed by name Paris Accords may refer to: * Paris Accords, the agreements reached at the end of the London and Paris Conferences in 1954 concerning the post-war status of Germ ...

1919 International Congress of Working Women The First International Congress of Working Women (ICWW), convened by the Women's Trade Union League of America from October 28 to November 6, 1919, was a meeting of labor feminists from around the world. The ICWW planned to share their proposals f ...

, Washington, D.C., 28 delegates from 11 countries * International Conference of Communist Women, 1920, Moscow, Soviet Russia *

Eighth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance The ''Eighth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance'' occurred June 6–12, 1920, in Geneva, Switzerland. Conference On call of its president, Carrie Chapman Catt, the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was summoned to its ...

, 1920, Geneva *

Pan-American Conference of Women Pan-American Conference of Women occurred in Baltimore, Maryland in 1922. It was held in connection with the third annual convention of the League of Women Voters, National League of Women Voters in Baltimore on April 20 to 29, 1922. Cooperating ...

, 1922, Baltimore, Maryland *

All India Women's Conference The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-governmental organisation ( NGO) based in Delhi. It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins in order to improve educational efforts for women and children and has expanded its scope to also tack ...

, founded 1927, today over 100,000 members *

International Conference for Women Leaders The International Conference for Women Leaders is a biennial conference established in 1961 and held by MASHAV – Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation—at Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through MASHAV Carmel Tra ...

, biennial conference in Israel, first held 1961 *

International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists ICWES (International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists) is an international conference for engineers and scientists. Established in 1964, it takes place every 3–4 years in countries around the world. Since 1999, the conference has bee ...

, 1964, New York, USA, series of ongoing conferences every 3–4 years *

Connecticut College Black Womanhood Conference The Connecticut College Black Womanhood Conference was a three-day conference in 1969 to celebrate the roles of Black women in numerous professional spheres, including education, medicine, fine arts, and politics. It is thought to be the first conf ...

, 1969, first of its kind on an American campus *

Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza La Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza (or the National Chicana Conference) was held in Houston, Texas, between May 28 and May 30 in 1971. The conference marked the first time Chicanas came together within the state from around the country to discu ...

, 1971, first national Chicana women's conference *

Women's Caucus for Art The Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), founded in 1972, is a non-profit organization based in New York City, which supports women artists, art historians, students, educators, and museum professionals. The WCA holds exhibitions and conferences to promo ...

, 1972, San Francisco, formed by women in the College Art Association *

World Conference on Women, 1975 World Conference on Women, 1975 was held between 19 June and 2 July 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first international conference held by the United Nations to focus solely on women's issues and marked a turning point in policy directives ...

, Mexico City, first of a series held by the United Nations *

Women's Ordination Conference The Women's Ordination Conference is an organization in the United States that works to ordain women as deacons, priests, and bishops in the Catholic Church. Founded in 1975, the conference was seeded from an idea the year before, when Mary B. Lyn ...

, 1975, Detroit, Michigan, advocating ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church *

1977 National Women's Conference The National Women's Conference of 1977 was a four-day event during November 18–21, 1977, as organized by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. The conference drew around 2,000 delegates along with 15,000-20, ...

, held in Houston, Texas, with 2,000 delegates and over 15,000 observers * 1977 Women's National Conference: Minority-Latino-Women *

World Conference on Women, 1980 The World Conference on Women, 1980, or the Second World Conference on Women, took place between July 14 and July 30, 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the mid-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the Wor ...

, Copenhagen, Denmark, second in a series held by the United Nations * First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1981, Bogotá, Colombia * Second Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1983, Lima, Peru *

World Conference on Women, 1985 The World Conference on Women, 1985 or the Third World Conference on Women took place between 15 and 26 July 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya to assess the progress and failure in implementing the goals for the United Nations Decade for Women, as establish ...

, Nairobi, Kenya, third in a series held by the United Nations * Third Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1985, Bertioga, Brazil * Fourth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1987, Taxco, Mexico *

Central California Women's Conference The Central California Women’s Conference (CCWC) is an annual one-day conference serving women of all generations, ethnicities and backgrounds in Fresno, California. The conference serves as a forum for women of all generations and backgrounds ...

, founded 1988, Fresno, California * California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women, 1985, held in Long Beach, California since 1993 * Fifth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1991, San Bernardo, Argentina *

Primer Encuentro de Mujeres Negras de América Latina y El Caribe Primer may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Primer'' (film), a 2004 feature film written and directed by Shane Carruth * ''Primer'' (video), a documentary about the funk band Living Colour Literature * Primer (textbook), a te ...

(First Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Women Negras), 1992, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 300 representatives from 32 countries * Sixth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1993, Costa del Sol, El Salvador *

World Conference on Women, 1995 The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. At this conference, governments from around the ...

, Beijing, convened by the United Nations * Seventh Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1996, Cartagena, Chile * Win Conference, annual conference first held in 1998 in Milan, Italy * Eighth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1999, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic

21st century

* Ninth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 2002, Playa Tambor, Costa Rica *

The Women's Conference The Women's Conference (formerly the California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan US organization and annual forum for women. The event first began in 1986 as a California government initiative for working pro ...

, renamed in 2004, started as the California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women in 1985 * Tenth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 2005, Serra Negra, Brazil * Eleventh Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico * Twelfth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 2011, Bogotá, Colombia * Trust Women Conference, annual conference first held in 2012, organized by the Thomson Reuters Foundation * Thirteenth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 2014, Lima, Peru * 50/50 Day, 2017, working towards a more gender-balanced world * All India Women Activists Conference-Multilingual, 2020, working for exposure of women's hidden talent in every field. Organised by 'MEGAH'All India Women Activists Association, Odisha Branch.

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Conferences A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject, or to bring together people who have a common interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always d ...

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