IAWRT was founded in 1949 and held the first conference of its own in 1951.
One of the founders of the organization, Willemien Hendrika (Posthumus-) van der Goot,[REF] left an extensive collection of papers from its early years, which are housed at the IIAV (Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging), a major women's archive based in Amsterdam [REF].