List of women's conferences

This is a chronological list of women's conferences.

In 1848 a group of women at Hunt House in Waterloo, New York, to plan the first women's conference.

19th century

• Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, Seneca Falls, New York, first women's rights convention
• Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848, Rochester, New York
• National Women's Rights Convention, 1850, Worcester, Massachusetts, first of an annual series
• Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, 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, 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, 1906, Copenhagen, Denmark
• International Socialist Women's Conferences, series of conferences beginning in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907
• Fourth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 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 series of on-going conferences to discuss the role of feminism (1981-)
• Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1911, Stockholm, Sweden
• Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1913, Budapest, Hungary
• Third International Socialist Women's Conference, 1915, Berne, Switzerland
• Women at the Hague, 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, February–April 1919, parallel conference to the Paris Peace Conference
• 1919 International Congress of Working Women, 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, 1920, Geneva
• Pan-American Conference of Women, 1922, Baltimore, Maryland
• All India Women's Conference, founded 1927, today over 100,000 members
• International Conference for Women Leaders, biennial conference in Israel, first held 1961
• International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, 1964, New York, USA, series of ongoing conferences every 3–4 years
• Connecticut College Black Womanhood Conference, 1969, first of its kind on an American campus
• Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza, 1971, first national Chicana women's conference
• Women's Caucus for Art, 1972, San Francisco, formed by women in the College Art Association
• World Conference on Women, 1975, Mexico City, first of a series held by the United Nations
• Women's Ordination Conference, 1975, Detroit, Michigan, advocating ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
• 1977 National Women's Conference, 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, 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, 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, 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 (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, 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, 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.

See also

• List of women's organizations
• List of women's rights conventions in the United States