International •
Red Hat Society, international social organization •
International Association of Lyceum Clubs, founded in 1904 in London, England, asserted to have clubs in 17 countries. Was formed as a place for women involved with literature, journalism, art, science and medicine to meet in an atmosphere that was similar to the men's professional clubs of that era. •
List of Cosmopolitan Clubs. England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China, India, U.S. (Are/were these all women's clubs? The ones in Philadelphia and NYC were, and have articles, and are separate items below.) •
Junior League, founded in 1901 in New York City, went international in 1926. A charitable women's empowerment organization. Over 295 Leagues around the world. •
P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded as a sorority in Iowa in 1869, went national in 1883. A charitable organization. •
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, organized in Ohio in 1873, has affiliates in Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, India, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, United Kingdom, and the United States •
Women's International Motorcycle Association, founded in 1950, in 25 countries, purports to be the largest women's motorcycle organization •
Women for Sobriety, founded in 1976, for women only, an alternative to the Twelve Steps program of Alcoholics Anonymous. •
Women in the Wind (motorcycle club), founded in 1979, has had 100 chapters in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Portugal, also purports to be the largest women's motorcycle organization •
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), founded as an international organization in 1894, had roots from 1855. In 120 countries.
Australia •
Adelaide Women's Club •
Bunbury Women's Club •
Brisbane Women's Club •
Karrakatta Club •
Lyceum Club (Australia) •
Queen Adelaide Club •
Queen's Club • Queen Mary Club •
Wonglepong QCWA Hall Azerbaijan •
Ali Bayramov Club, Baku, founded in 1920 as a literacy and sewing circle, it campaigned for women's
unveiling and literacy.
Cost Rica •
Women's Club of Costa Rica (1940–Present), San José. Founded as the "USA Woman's Club of Costa Rica".
Cuba •
Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club (1929–39), Havana. A women's cultural, social, and physical fitness organization; it established Cuba's first free public library, first children's library, and first course of instruction for librarians.
England •
Ladies' Alpine Club (1907–1975), London, the first
mountaineering club for women. •
Ladies Dining Society (1890-World War I), Cambridge, a private women's dining and discussion club at
Cambridge University. Primarily wives of male professors and college fellows. Members campaigned for Cambridge to grant degrees to women, and most were strong supporters of
female suffrage. •
Pioneer Club (women's club), London •
Grosvenor Crescent Club, London, which split off from the Pioneer Club •
University Women's Club, Mayfair, London
Greece •
Lyceum Club of Greek Women, founded in Athens in 1911, has 51 branches including 16 outside of Greece. Its purpose is to preserve and promote Greek cultural heritage and it opened, in 1988, the
Museum of the History of the Greek Costume.
United States In the United States a number of clubs were established, and corresponding buildings were built, in the early 1900s as part of a scheme by publisher
Edward Gardner Lewis to promote sales of ''
Woman's Magazine'', but many more were independent organizations. Numerous women's club buildings have been evaluated for listing on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) individually or as part of wider collections. Historic preservation studies have been conducted for women's clubhouses in Florida, in Illinois, in New Mexico, and in Olympia, Washington Women's clubs in the United States were indexed by the GFWC, and also by
Helen M. Winslow who published an annual "register and directory" of the GFWC ones and some more, which was in its 24th annual edition in 1922. The GWFC did not admit clubs for African-American women, and Winslow's directory seems to omit them too. Various clubs for black women / African American women are included by state below, but see also
:Category:National Association of Colored Women's Clubs which includes a number of them.
Multiple locations nationwide, primarily in United States •
American Association of University Women, founded as "Association of Collegiate Alumnae" in 1882 •
American News Women's Club, established in 1932 as a newspaper club for female reporters. The club's records are held at the University of Maryland Archives. •
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, founded in 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia, grew throughout the south to have a claimed presence in nearly every county throughout the south. Fought against lynchings of black persons. Was restricted to white women only to better be able to affect white women opinions generally, and to address purported motivation of lynching to "protect" white women. •
Colonial Dames of America (CDA), founded 1890, just before DAR and NSCDA •
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), organized in 1890 after the
Sons of the American Revolution would not admit women and expand to become "Sons and Daughters". Promotes historic preservation, education, and patriotism. Membership limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the
American Revolution. Eclipsed the "Sons" in membership? with 195,000 members? •
Embroiderers' Guild of America, established in 1958 as a branch of 1906-founded
Embroiderers' Guild headquartered in London, England, and split off later. Is this a women's club? Seems was not exclusively for women, but probably was effectively a women's club. •
Executive Women's Golf Association, founded in 1991, headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; in 2014 had 114 chapters throughout the United States, and 1 chapter each in Canada, Bermuda, South Africa, Ireland and Italy. •
General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), founded in 1890, federation of more than 3,000 women's clubs. •
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), founded 1896 from merger of 1895-founded
National Federation of Afro-American Women, the c. 1892–94
Women's Era Club of Boston, and the
National League of Colored Women (founded when?) of Washington, D.C. •
Ladies' Memorial Association, founded in 1865 in Winchester, Virginia •
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (Ladies of the G.A.R.), founded 1881 as "Loyal Ladies League", went national and assumed current name in 1886. It claims to be the oldest women's hereditary organization in the United States. •
League of Women Voters, founded in 1920 at the final convention of the
National American Women Suffrage Association, to support educating women to take part in the political process. •
The Links, Incorporated, founded in 1946; the largest and most influential organization for Black women •
MacDowell Clubs, first founded in 1896 in Boston, about 400 in number, mostly choosing to be female only •
National Council of Jewish Women •
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, founded in 1919, at a meeting led by
Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. In the 1930s it became a charter member of the
International Federation of Business and Professional Women. •
National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, founded by 1895 (was this a women's organization?) •
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA), founded 1891, distinct from CDA formed just prior •
National Society United States Daughters of 1812, founded in 1892 as "United States Daughters of 1812" •
Navy Wives Clubs of America, founded 1936 in California •
Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, founded 1896, first umbrella organization for black women's clubs in the United States, went back and forth in affiliating with NACWC, had 55 clubs in northeastern U.S. in early 1900s, was incorporated in 1927 •
Phillis Wheatley Club, African Americans' women's clubs, started in 1895 in Nashville, TN, also in Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin and elsewhere •
Pulpwood Queens, founded in 2000 in Jefferson, Texas; reportedly has 400 chapters, including 10 in foreign countries and one in a women's prison •
United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee •
United Order of Tents, founded in Virginia, a secret society for African American churchwomen •
Women's Health Protective Association, founded as the "Ladies' Health Protective Association" in 1884 in New York City, had 40 clubs from various cities at its 1897 convention in Philadelphia. •
Yesharah Society, founded 1928, a social organization of female returned missionaries of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Had multiple chapters, peaked in 1950s (perhaps most numerous within Utah?)
Alabama In 1922, the
Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs had 219 clubs with about 6,000 members, •
Coolidge Woman's Club, Coolidge, AZ, NRHP-listed •
Mesa Woman's Club, Mesa, AZ, NRHP-listed •
Tempe Woman's Club, Tempe, AZ, NRHP-listed •
Willcox Women's Club, Willcox, AZ, NRHP-listed •
Woman's Club, Safford, AZ, NRHP-listed
Arkansas In 1922 the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1897, had 250 clubs with about 8,000 members. •
Woman's Community Club Band Shell, Heber Springs, Arkansas, NRHP-listed •
Woman's Progressive Club, Wynne, AR, NRHP-listed
California In 1922 the California State Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1900, had 531 clubs with about 55,624 members. •
Soroptimist International of Kona (1971) •
Zonta International (1951)
New York In 1922 the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1894, had about 500 clubs with about 300,000 members.) It met first at the
Cosmopolitan Club (New York City) (a women's club) and met four to five times a year at multiple locations. Membership was capped at 40 members by the 1950s; members included
Ruth S. Granniss, who was librarian to the Grolier Club. •
Jamaica Women's Club, Jamaica, Queens •
Manor Club, Pelham Manor •
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, headquarters of
Colonial Dames of America which purchased it in 1924 •
New Century Club (Utica, New York), NRHP-listed •
Scarsdale Woman's Club, Scarsdale, NY, NRHP-listed •
Sorosis, NYC, founded 1868, first professional women's club in U.S. •
Women's City Club of New York (WCC) •
Women's Community Club of South Valley, South Valley, NY, NRHP-listed •
Women's National Republican Club, NYC, founded in 1921; its 1934 building is NRHP-listed •
Woman's Press Club of New York City North Carolina In 1922 the North Carolina State Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1902, had 196 clubs with about 10,000 members, It established the first
kindergarten in the city, staffed city buses and the
Southern Railway station with volunteers during both World Wars. •
Fayetteville Women's Club and Oval Ballroom, Fayetteville, NC, NRHP-listed •
Fuquay-Varina Woman's Club Clubhouse, Fuquay-Varina, NC, NRHP-listed •
Woman's Club of Fayetteville, Fayetteville, NC, founded in 1906 as a Civic Improvement Association to fight for preservation of historic
Market House, not named a Women's Club until 1920. Established first public library in Fayetteville, continues to work for historic preservation.
North Dakota In 1922 the North Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1897, had 188 clubs with about 4,500 members,
Pennsylvania In 1922 the Pennsylvania State Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1895, had 233 clubs with about 57,180 members, •
International Women's Club of Guam (founded 1973)
Puerto Rico :See
National Conference of Puerto Rican Women (founded in 1972 in Washington, D.C.) ==See also==