It was founded under the guidance of Reggie Miller of the Labour Front but its members consisted mainly of upper class elite women.
The purpose was to work for the inclusion of women's suffrage in the new Malta constitution, which was to be introduced in 1947 and which was at that time prepared in parliament.
[1] The Women of Malta Association was officially registered as a labor union, in order to give its representatives the right to speak in parliament.
After the approval of the reform in parliament, Josephine Burns de Bono resigned from her post as President of the Women of Malta Association with the statement that the purpose of the organization had now been achieved.
[1] William E. Chetcuti of The Bulletin commented that it: Constitutional Commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael noted: In the following elections in the summer of 1947, two women participated as candidates for MP, Hélène Buhagiar for the Democratic Action Party and Agatha Barbara of the Labour Party, of whom the latter won and became the first woman MP in Malta, later be coming also the first female cabinet minister and the first female President of Malta.