The women agreed to conduct common struggles for the rights of working women, for the protection of motherhood and children, for the right to vote, for a common struggle against high prices, caused by the monopolies greed for profit, and against the armaments race.
In those one hundred years the equality of genders has been recognized as a fundamental human right. The UN International Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women CEDAW constituted a strong international base.
A good European and international legislation has been created as a result of long and hard struggles of women and feminist movement. Of course, there was always the gap between de jure equality and de facto equality.

Although, the neoliberal model that caused economic, social and cultural crisis, now threatens to eliminate not only the achievements of women, but also the principles on which they are founded.
The work of women have became enslaved by paltry wages, without insurance, with a treatment which is characterized by violence, threats, sexual harassment, discrimination through firing of pregnant women and working conditions that cost them even their own lives.
The welfare state is disintegrated through privatization even of those fields that are a basis for substantive equality. That is the whole complex: health, education, social security, care and concern for children and the elderly. The obligations of the welfare state were loaded on the shoulders of women.
The retirement age is equated upwards and all positive measures for women are eliminated.
The violence against women was intensified and often reaches up to murder.  The right to abortion either is in dispute or is invalidated. The family law changes in a conservative direction. The politics remains male dominated.
The attack of the neoliberals on social and political rights of women has its own expression also in the ideological sphere. There is a systematic propaganda to enforce the part-time work, above all women, as the only kind of work.
Conservative political circles and the Church attack against the women's rights. The sexuality of women, the self-regulation of their reproductive function and sexual orientation receive systematic attacks.
We, the women of the European Left, cannot accept that the people must pay the consequences of the crisis of capitalism.
We adamantly defend our acquired rights, and we demand to overcome the crisis not at the expense of the people but at the expense of monopolies, companies and banks.
We want gender equality in the Labour market, equal pay for equal work and the same opportunities for women and men at work.
We want the possibility of combining work and family life through the reduction of working hours and the establishment of public services for the care of children, sick and the elderly.
We want equal participation and representation of women in politics and in all decision making institutions, including 50% of all seats.
We demand that the sexual and reproductive rights of women are guaranteed.
We are in favor of a European law that will legalize abortion.
We demand a European law against gender-based violence.
We demand the same rights and the same opportunities for the migrant and refugee women.
We shall not become “working poor" women.
The feminist movement allied with the workers movement and the equal rights movement is fighting against the monopolies, companies and banks.
Our slogan is “NO PASSARAN” by DOLORES IBARURI