In practically every civilized country in the world to-day there exists a Council of Women, a central organization to which clubs and societies of women with all sorts of opinions and objects send delegates.

In the United States the council is made up of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and innumerable smaller organizations, like the National Congress of Mothers, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

More than a million and a half American women are affiliated.
Four hundred and twenty-six women's organizations belong to the council in Great Britain.

In Switzerland the council has sixty-four allied societies; in Austria it has fifty; in the Netherlands it has thirty-five.

Seventy-five thousand women belong to the French council.
In all, the International Council of Women, to which all the councils send delegates, represents more than eight million women, in countries as far apart as Australia, Argentine, Iceland, Persia, South Africa, and every country in Europe.