Dransfeld worked closely with the women's rights activist Ellen Ammann, who founded the Munich branch of the KDFB in 1904.

During the Great Depression in Central Europe, the KDFB campaigned for working rights for unmarried women and opened career counseling centers in Cologne and Berlin.

[citation needed] The organization supports environmental protections, gender equality, charitable work, and education and advocates that these issues pertain to Christianity.

[6] The KDFB publicly supports the Mary 2.0 movement, which works to bring awareness to sexism in the Catholic Church and the mishandling of the clerical sex abuse crisis.

[7] In 2019 the KDFB was criticized by the Forum of German Catholics, who called for a boycott of the association after it had publicly supported the Mary 2.0 movement.