We intend to make this paper a forum for the discussion of problems that lie closest to women's lives, from the Socialist standpoint.

[2]Both Conger-Kaneko and her husband, Kiichi Kaneko, were feminists who supported the women's suffrage movement, and the magazine reflected their views.

The magazine received no funding from the Socialist Party,[4] and supplemented its subscription fees by carrying advertisements for books, periodicals, anti-Catholic tracts, hair tonics, patent medicines, and the like.

[2] Racial equality and issues such as lynching were rarely mentioned, however, and contributors often displayed the casual racism that was common among American whites at the time.

The change had the desired result, and by 1910 The Progressive Woman had between 12,000 and 15,000 subscribers,[4] reaching readers as far away as Japan, Australia, China, Mexico, Canada, and Sweden.

She returned to Chicago, where she reached an agreement with the Woman's National Committee (WNC) of the Socialist Party whereby they would provide limited financial support for the magazine.