This committee of the International Labour Organization (ILO) was founded in 1932, and replaced by the Panel of Consultants on the Problems of Women Workers in 1959.

The International Labour Office installed this specialized committee in 1932. Members were appointed in individual capacity. In the interwar period, the Committee functioned as a large network of mostly female experts who consulted the International Labour Office on various aspects of women’s work. It never met in person during this time.

During the period between 1932 and 1935, this committee united 106 members representing 29 countries and territories. Among them, many came from Central and Eastern Europe:

• Anna Boschek, Grete Daurer (later Rehor), Emmy Freundlich, Isa Kosseldorfer, and Käthe Leichter from Austria;

• Fanny Blatny, Betty Karpíšková, Marie Neumann, Valeria Novotná, Františka Plamínková, and Anna Vetterová-Bečvářová from Czechoslovakia;
• Anna Kéthly and Mme Vajkai from Hungary;
• Zofia Garlicka, Halina Krahelska, and Eugenia Waśniewska from Poland;
• Calypso Botez and Tatiana Grigorovici from Romania;
• Milena Atanatskovitch from Yugoslavia.