The first women’s movements and associations in Iraq began during the monarchy, but they left their mark later in the republican era that followed the monarchy. The first women’s associations in Iraq appeared in 1924 under the name “Nahda Women’s”. This club was an important step in pushing the movement forward when Iraqi women struggled with illiteracy and injustice. This club didn’t last long due to the lack of financial and popular support. The women’s side of the Red Crescent Society appeared in Iraq In 1933, the Nation Houses Association and the Society for treating Social Illnesses were founded in 1937. This indicates that women were able to enter new fields, even if it was in small numbers, but during that period they were an important role in motivating women and raising their status in this social field by contacting the rest of the associations outside Iraq to benefit from their ideas and their experience in forming similar associations in Iraq.

Because of several factors that affected women after the July 14, 1958 revolution, such as increasing social awareness and realizing the reality of women’s role in society, we find that the contribution of women after the revolution was more powerful and thoughtful, this level was a stormy mass revival against backwardness and ignorance in society. This was due to the development of educational opportunities and the entry of women into new fields, so their contribution became greater, especially among the female students, as well as many new ideas that appeared from various groups, which led to create more leftist parties and movements that dealt with the issue of women as part of general political issue.

Most of these women’s associations continued to work even after the revolution of July 14, 1958, in addition to the emergence of other new associations, especially after the Law No. (1) in 1960. This law is the first legislation issued by the republican regime to organize the affairs of associations, the idea of freedom and democracy that the revolution called for.

But one of the disadvantages of this law is that it came with unfair rules, for example “Associations Law No. 63 of 1955 was based on giving the executive authority the Ministry of Interior and the Council of Ministers” absolute powers to authorize, monitor and dissolve parties, in addition to depriving groups of Iraqi citizens of their right to Belonging to parties without a real reason, that is against the principles of political organization in democratic countries.

The extension of the leftist tendency in Iraq after the revolution of July 14, 1958, played a major role in the expanding women’s activities and their entry into the social and political battle with more activity than they were before, it was represented in those associations, where their activity began to increase clearly until in 1960 in Iraq there were 193 women’s and public associations in Baghdad only and female educational institutes, as well as women’s newspapers and magazines. But due to the national sovereignty over these left-wing parties, the issue of women and equality came in second place, as these left-wing parties merge the issue of women with the national issue, so feminist mottos emerged such as “Women against colonialism, women for peace, women for children, women for the country’s sake, unlike the mottos that we find now among the modern feminist movements that are against harassment, Property, inequality wages , personal freedoms, equality in domestic work, against guardianship on women.

 Some of social and religious associations that were established before the July 14 revolution continued to do their activities in different aspects of life, each according to his political ideas, and had a clear impact on social life with humanitarian services provided only to the community. These associations were as parts of the associations formed by men in Baghdad

After July 14 revolution, Iraqi women reached the top of political and social freedom at that time in the Middle East, due to what she has done for in government positions represented by the position of minister and judge and other jobs occupied by women. In addition to the issuance of Law No. 188 of 1959, which has been rejected by religious circles. The first action taken by the government of the Baathist in February 1963 was to replace it with Law No. 11, with the aim of canceling the equal inheritance between males and female.

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