10th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance

none thumb|National Women's Party delegation en route to Paris The 10th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was an international women's conference, which took place in Paris in France in May 30 to June 6, 1926.Times Wireless To the New York 1926-05-27 WOMAN'S PARTY SEES VICTORY AT PARIS; Suffrage Alliance Declaration for Equality in Industry Is Hailed by Its Delegates. https://www.nytimes.com/1926/05/27/archives/womans-party-sees-victory-at-paris-suffrage-alliance-declaration.html 2026-03-13 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331February 9, 1926 Women's Suffrage Alliance https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16261507 March 13, 2026 The Sydney Morning Herald It was the tenth international conference which was arranged under the International Alliance of Women. thumb|Indian and European delegates The conference was held in the Sorbonne in Paris and was presided over for the first time by Margery Corbett Ashby, the International Alliance of Women's second President.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16265548 Suffrage Congress Sydney Morning Herald 11 February 1926 Deutsch Regine 1929 The International Woman Suffrage Alliance – Its History from 1904 to 1929 https://womenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IAW-1929-IWSA-25th-Anniversary-Booklet.pdf International Alliance of Women President Ashby stated in her speech that the women's movement existed in every country whose principles built upon the concepts of peace, freedom, and liberty, and that its goal was justice, international harmony, and peace.Fraser, A. S. (2019). The U.n. Decade For Women: Documents And Dialogue. Storbritannien: Taylor & Francis. This introduction of international peace as a core value was also made by the International Alliance of Women's first President, Carrie Chapman Catt. Though absent from this convening, her letter to its participants declared standing in unity for the peace of nations to be the highest duty of women after obtaining their right to vote. As a result, a corresponding 6th committee for Peace and the United Nations was created, and nine women from different countries addressed 6,000 people at the Trocadero on the subject of world peace. This conference also saw the addition of a 7th committee for Women Police. Pre-existing committees included those regarding unmarried women and their children, family endowments and allowances, nationality of married women, and related themes.Women’s Suffrage Collection https://www.slpl.org/womens-suffrage-collection 2026-03-13 en-US The conference is known as the conference during which the International Woman Suffrage Alliance changed its name to International Women's Alliance.Records of the International Alliance of Women https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/2IAW 2026-03-13 archives.lse.ac.uk en-gb The conference also established relations with the League of Nations, facilitated by the Alliance's Emilie Gourd and with League of Nations conference representation from its Liaison Officer Princess Radziwill.https://womenalliance.org/old/history.html International Alliance of Women For the third time, this convening included a dedicated evening reserved for women members of Parliaments from various countries – there were reported to be 10 such representatives at this conference, which was considered notable. The 10th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance put emphasis on international and global feminist cooperation. This was particularly the case for the cooperation between the British and the American women's movement, a line supported by the Six Point Group and the American National Woman's Party.Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe-America : Towards a Re-writing of Cultural History, 1890-1939 : Proceedings of the International Conference, Macerata, March 25-27, 2002. (2004). Italien: Edizioni di storia e letteratura. Delegates from this National Woman's Party traveled to Paris as a delegation to seek admission into the Alliance.Underwood & Underwood Library of Congress Party delegation en route to Paris to seek admission into International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, May 1926 https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000322/?loclr=blogmss live https://web.archive.org/web/20240908045308/https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000322/?loclr=blogmss 2024-09-08 March 13, 2026 Library of Congress Further to its theme of equality, the Alliance included both enfranchised and disenfranchised women.International Alliance of Women records https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/721 2026-03-13 findingaids.smith.edu References 2004 Janet K. Diane Long 0-8108-4946-1 Boles Hoeveler Scarecrow Press Historical Dictionary of Feminism https://books.google.com/books?id=tOVlvvrMJhUC&pg=PA21 International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Category:Women's suffrage in France Category:Conferences in Paris Category:Conferences of the International Alliance of Women Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Category:History of women in Paris Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1926