The council was financed by the government and included many wives of politicians of the authoritarian regime of President Antanas Smetona.
In the early 1920s, there was an increasing number of various committees, societies, and organizations seeking to aid women and orphans, improve morale, and provide education.
The organizational committee was established on 16 September 1928 and included Ona Mašiotienė, Jadvyga Tūbelienė, Felicija Bortkevičienė, Paulina Kalvaitytė.
[2] LMT asked Prime Minister Juozas Tūbelis (husband of Jadvyga Tūbelienė) for financial support and received it.
In late 1929, LMT requested President Smetona to co-opt representatives of women organizations to the president-appointed State Council, an advisory legislative body established by the Constitution of 1928.
The President tentatively agreed and asked for a list of candidates, but the plan failed due to ideological disagreements between LMT and the Lithuanian Women's Union, supported by the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania.
[3] The failure in the 1936 parliamentary elections prompted LMT to organize the second Congress of Lithuanian Women in December 1937.
[3] President Smetona delivered an opening speech in which he thanked the women for their part in establishing independent Lithuania but stated that a woman's true calling was not in politics or public life, but at home.
[3] LMT was an organization of well-educated ladies working in professional jobs, lacking representatives of rural farmers or factory workers.
[1] From March 1937, LMT published an illustrated monthly magazine Moteris ir pasaulis (Woman and the World), edited by Pranciška Pikčilingienė.