The 1910 women's conference was held before a congress of which socialist organization?

The 1910 women’s conference was held before a congress of the Second International.

The Copenhagen meeting was the Second International Socialist Women’s Conference, held on August 26–27, 1910. It preceded the wider International Socialist Congress, which met in Copenhagen from August 28 to September 3. The women’s conference was therefore part of the political world of the Second International, the major international association of socialist parties founded in 1889.

German socialist leader Clara Zetkin and other delegates used the gathering to promote an annual day of action for women’s equality and suffrage. The conference’s resolution helped turn separate national campaigns into an international socialist women’s movement.

“Socialist International” is a frequent trap because it is the name of a later organization founded in 1951. The Comintern, or Third International, was established only after the Russian Revolution, in 1919. The First International belonged to an earlier period and dissolved in the 1870s.