Union des femmes de Wallonie

[2] From 1920 to 1936, the UFW published the journal La Femme wallonne which generally presented a feminist approach in support of overcoming traditional stereotypes and working towards universal suffrage.

The educator Léonie de Waha was president, the headmistress Marie Defrecheux was vice-president, and the philologist Marguerite Delchef was secretary.

After the end of hostilities, the Union modified its statutes and extended its field of interest, now bent on "defending French culture, supporting intellectual and artistic education for women, keeping abreast of developments of the Walloon movement, and exerting all means possible to perpetuate the memory of the horrors committed by the enemy during the war".

The Union continued to encourage women to enter the workforce, even in the face of increases in male unemployment, as can be seen in an article in 1926 in La Femme wallonne by Marie Delcourt.

This prompted the Catholic senator Georges-Ceslas Rutten, to make a proposal limiting women's work in factories, workshops, construction sites and offices.