National Council of Women (Spanish: Consejo Nacional de Mujeres de Chile) was a women's organization in Chile, founded in 1919.
It was not the only woman's organization, as the Civico Femeninio (Women's Civic Party) was founded the same year, but it was to be the dominant women's organization in Chile.
It also worked for a change of the civil code to improve women's rights, particularly to abolish the patria potestad, in which women were under the guardianship of their husbands.
[1] In 1925, it helped achieve the adoption of a legal decree known as the Maza Law (named after Senator José Maza) in the Civil Code that restricted the powers of custody of the father in favor of the mother.
It was supported by Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Arturo Alessandri, then President of the Republic.