Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization founded in 1992 that advances conservative and free‑market approaches to issues affecting women. Through research, commentary, campus programs, legal support projects, and public outreach it promotes what it calls \"equity feminism,\" workplace flexibility, reduced regulatory burdens, and policies intended to expand economic opportunity for women while critiquing mainstream feminist policy prescriptions.
Free-market economic policy and regulatory rollback; workplace flexibility and family‑friendly labor policies; education policy and Title IX enforcement reform; opposition to expansive government healthcare programs; campus free speech and cultural issues; legal advocacy on select individual cases and conservative legal policy priorities.
Primarily funded by grants and contributions from conservative philanthropic foundations and individual donors (including donor-advised/donor‑directed funds and foundations aligned with free‑market networks), supplemented by event revenue and program grants.
Independent Women’s Law Center; Independent Women’s Voice; Center for Economic Opportunity (IWF project); prominent associated individuals have included Carrie Lukas (president), Heather Higgins (chair), Christina Hoff Sommers, and past board members such as Kellyanne Conway.
Non-profit organization (501(c)(3) research and educational organization)
