Rooie Vrouwen in de PvdA

The organization started as a union of women's organizations, called "union of social-democrat women's clubs[1] at the time of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), one of the predecessors of the PvdA.

The organization was renamed Vrouwencontact in de PvdA in 1969, and from 1975 on Rooie Vrouwen in de PvdA, a more "catchy" name chosen to align the group with, and draw membership from, the second wave of feminism.

It made headlines in 1976 when it occupied an abortion clinic (the Beahuis & Bloemenhovekliniek in Heemstede), which then-Minister of Justice Dries van Agt threatened with closure.

In 1992 then-party leader Felix Rottenberg indicated he would cut the organization's funding; three years later, in 1995, the organization decided to stop being an independent group and integrate within the party,[3] at first under the name Rosa-vrouwen-project, the reason being that a greater participation of women in politics was deemed a matter for the entire party, not just one part of it.

[1] It is allied with the Politiek Vrouwen Overleg (PVO), which is a collaboration of women of various political parties.