The Women's International Council of Socialist and Labour Organizations was a body established within the

Second International The Second International, also called the Socialist International, was a political international of Labour movement, socialist and labour parties and Trade union, trade unions which existed from 1889 to 1916. It included representatives from mo ...

to enable special conferences of the socialist and labour movements to be held. It was founded at the First International Conference of Socialist Women in Stuttgart, 1907.

National sections

The Council organised the Second International Women's Conference in Copenhagen in 1910, at which it was resolved to form national sections.

British Section

The British Section was formed with

Margaret Bondfield Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a priv ...

as chair, with Margaret McDonald as secretary. Both these women came from the Women's Labour League (WLL). Ethel Bentham, another prominent member of the WLL participated as the representative of the

Fabian Society The Fabian Society () is a History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom, British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in ...

References

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