In 1911, María Jesús Alvarado Rivera attended the First International Women's Congress in Argentina.
In 1915, the Chamber of Representatives finally allowed women to become committee members of public welfare societies, but Evolución Femenina was forced to continue fighting until 1922, when this was put in to law.
The Evolución Femenina was met with worse hostility and more difficulty than its counterparts in Argentine, Chile and Brazil.
In 1923, the chairperson María Jesús Alvarado Rivera founded the Peruvian National Women's Council upon the wish of Carrie Chapman Catt and became its secretary.
This was strongly opposed by the Union Catolica, and resulted in María Jesús Alvarado Rivera being arrested and banished from Peru.