It was formed by volunteers along with other Women's Antifascist Fronts in Yugoslavia and was one of only four to also become an organised resistance movement.
[1] The predecessors of the organization were the commissions for work with women of the Macedonian Communist Party found in the spring of 1943.
[2] The most prominent figure in the movement was Veselinka Malinska, a decorated World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia veteran and ASNOM participant.
[2] The movement was closely affiliated with the Greek Civil War organisation, the National Liberation Front which had a substantial number of female partisans.
The AFŽ's main goal was to improve schooling for females and increase their literacy rate, as a majority of illiterates at the time were women.