[2] NCWI formed permanent committees within subjects such as Arts, work, media and law and, through its local branches, placed a representative and advisory in the local city boards of schools, libraries, refugee homes, shelters, prisons and other government institutions.
Indian upper-class women having, at this time, only recently left the traditional Purdah seclusion, acted to engage in public life in the way British women did, and as their husbands, they remained loyal to the Status quo and did not involve themselves or the NCWI in the issue of Indian independence.
The elite character of the NCWI in combination with its loyalty to the British Raj resulted in its failing to make the organization a national mass movement, a goal that was instead reached by the AIWC.
Due to the NCWI having members consisting of the wives to elite men with contacts to the establishment, they were often efficient in reaching results, and did so in many of the issues they engaged in.
[4] The NCWI also belonged to the organisation who supported the women's suffrage reform, which was introduced by the British in 1935.