[1][2] The organization provides micro-loan and small business development support, family planning services, maternal and pediatric care, orphanages, training for female Muslim clerics, and standard preschool through university level education.

[2] The organization's stated goal is to make Islamic society a reality for women,[4] and it encourages its members to seek further education even if they become "smarter than their husbands.

"[6] Aisyiyah faces opposition to their work from two sources: traditional Javanese culture with its pre-Islamic practices and the minority of Indonesians who study Islam in the Middle East both display negative attitudes toward women in the public space.

[10] All members of Aisyiyah take a vow upon reception of their membership card to uphold the organization's tenets and protect its image as a pious group.

Although its parent organization, Muhammadiyah, did not officially permit birth control until 1971, it was the efforts of Aisyiyah's female Muslim clerics and study circles that shaped the view of permissibility on the issue.