The congress was an official US branch of the Women's International Democratic Federation, which though an antifascist organization was pro-Soviet.
[2] The organization supported progressive policies giving women full rights and equality both in the home and economically.
They supported labor organizing and civil rights and were against anticommunist attacks on liberals.
[3] Though many members were communists or part of the popular front, membership in the organization included a broad mix of liberal, middle-class women.
[4] Among its other members were anthropologist Gene Weltfish, aviator Jacqueline Cochran, social worker Mary van Kleeck, educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, author and artist Muriel Draper, labor leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, politician Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, and journalist Susan B. Anthony II.