OPEN DOOR COUNCIL Founded in 1926, the Open Door Council strove to ensure equality of legal treatment for the woman worker. It had a strongly internationalist stance from its inception and a conference in Berlin in 1929 organised by the Council’s international committee led to the formation of the Open Door International. The ODC thereafter served as the British arm of the international organisation. The work of the former was truncated by World War II, but it was very active again in the 1950s with most members coming from Scandinavia, Belgium and Great Britain. However, membership shrank considerably in the following decade and although ODI was never formally dissolved it effectively ceased operations around 1974.