“Women’s point of view was apt to be forgotten”

This chapter uses the Liaison Committee of International Women's Organizations to recover the history of the collaboration, and contention, between women's organizations and the League of Nations and the United Nations, as they laboured to establish an international convention on the status of women. When the League was incorporated on 10 January 1920, women's issues were classified by the member states as "national" concerns. This categorization presented a problem for women's organizing because the Covenant of the League established that it could only deal with issues and organizations that were international. As The Hague conference opened up new pathways for women's organizing at the League, it also exposed the limits of the Liaison Committee of Women's International Organizations (LCIWO's) ability to position itself as a body that represented all women's organizations that worked across national borders.