The leaders were Josette Dumeix [fr], then Maria Rabaté for the northern zone, after the arrest of Danielle Casanova and Marcelle Barjonet.

[1] In April 1944, the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans asked the UFF for help in joining its auxiliary services as an intelligence unit, as a liaison or stewardship.

After liberation, they merged and were formally registered under the name "Union des femmes françaises", becoming one of the main organizations of the PCF, and became official at a congress on 21 December 1944.

[8] Femmes solidaires is a national feminist movement of popular education made up of more than 190 local associations, established throughout France and its overseas departments.

The association is also involved in international solidarity campaigns and works with numerous feminist organizations in different countries around the world.