It was the first feminist organization in Haiti, and played an important role for the struggle for women's suffrage, which was finally introduced in 1950.
[3] Besides Alice Garoute, the League's founding members included: Madeleine Sylvain, Fernande Bellegarde, Thérèse Hudicourt, Esther Dartigue, Alice Téligny Mathon, Marie-Thérèse Colimon, Marie-Thérèse Poitevien and Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel, many of whom were teachers of elite social extraction.
The League was banned by the government sometime after its founding but was reestablished when it agreed to study its goals instead of immediately implementing them.
[4] The First Congress of Haitian women was organized by the League on April 10–14, 1950, under the watchful eye of its honorary president, First Lady Lucienne Heurtelou Estimé.
At the Congress' closing ceremony Alice Garoute and other notable women lodged an official list of their demands.