I think that Chi Omega is the largest. And i know that Kappa Delta is among the top 5 but i'm not exactly sure which number.

reviving controversy. Been boring on this site lately.

Food for thought...
 

Because NPC operates on the quota total system, there is much less dispartity between # of active chapters, # of members, and # of alumnae. Chi Omega takes all three.

And, let's re-examine this whole largest women's organization in the world. It's not the Girl Scouts. It's the National Panhellenic Conference.

ASA is the largest national sorority*!











*out of all the sororities founded in 1901!

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Come on people, fight. I'm bored. Where is the statician when u need 'em.

Dude your a mod you can't encourage fights. ;)

Sir, I challenge you to a duel.

lol!
D Phi E is the largest NPC...founded at a law school. :)

HRM.

Well the Girl Scouts are just part of WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). There are only like 2 countries where they're called Girl Scouts, the US and some obscure place. I'd be willing to bet that WAGGGS membership is higher than NPC membership. Unless you're just limiting it to the US....

LOL! Yeah for GC bickering!

If anyone cares, I am a proud and devoted member of both NPC and WAGGGS!

I have to agree...people pass away, people pledge and then drop out, people initiate and stay in, people initiate and then kind of decide that ehn, they don't want to continue their affiliation after college (my roommate :rolleyes: )...it is impossible to tell in a "snap shot moment" how many live bodies each sorority has.

I think that it means how many initiates in total over the history of a sorority. My sorority and SDT were founded in 1917. NPC sororities founded in the 19th Century will probably have more initiates since some are 50+ years older.

Re: Food for thought...
 

Actually, the NPC has only 26 members -- the 26 inter/national sororities/fraternities that belong to it. They, not the individual members of those sororities/fraternities, are the NPC's members.

Numbers can be so hard to pin down, can't they? Chi O's website says: "Today, Chi Omega is the largest women's fraternal organization in the world with 240,000 initiates." When they say "initiates," I'm not sure if they mean living initiates or total-since-founding initiates. Anyway...

The website of P.E.O. Sisterhood, a fraternal organization for adult women says that P.E.O "has grown from that tiny membership of seven to more than a quarter of a million members in chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada." P.E.O.'s "more than a quarter of a million [i.e., 250,000] members" would seem to be more than Chi O's 240,000.

As for the oft-repeated claim that Chi Omega is the largest women's organization (sometimes the claim is largest "non-profit" women's organization) except for the Girl Scouts, again numbers can be tricky. According to the website of the Woman’s Missionary Union, a women's organization connected to the Southern Baptist Convention, that group has "a membership of approximately 1 million." The website of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs reports that that group "currently has members in 6,500 clubs around the United States, and more than one million members worldwide." Granted, the US membership is not clear, but just an average membership of 40 would take the US membership over 260,000, and I'm guessing (I know I shouldn't do that) that most of the GFWC's members are in the US.

Please don't get me wrong -- I'm not slamming Chi Omega. Chi Omega is an outstanding organization, and its sisters have much to be proud of -- so much, in fact, that it seems to me that they don't need to keep repeating a questionable claim.

I believe we have a winner....
 

http://womensissues.about.com/cs/pro...pwomensorg.htm


The Top Women's Orgs:
1) NOW
The National Organization for Women is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been "to take action" to bring about equality for all women.
More: visit their site


They also state:
NOW is a non-profit organization which receives all its operating funds from private donations and membership dues.


And the rest....

2) YWCA
There are 300 YWCAs united under the umbrella of the YWCA of the U.S.A. They are the largest provider of shelter services for women and their families in the country; a leader in violence prevention, offering programs and services to more than 700,000 women and children annually; a comprehensive employment training and placement services agency, enrolling some 100,000 women annually and more!
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3) League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
More: visit their site


4) NWSA
NWSA supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession.
More: visit their site


5) NCRW
The National Council for Research on Women, founded in 1981, is a working alliance of 92 women's research and policy centers, more than 3,000 affiliates and a network of over 200 international centers. NCRW's mission is to enhance the connections among research, policy analysis, advocacy, and innovative programming on behalf of women and girls.
More: visit their site


6) National Partnership for Women and Families
The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
More: visit their site


7) AWHONN
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is a leader among the nation's nursing associations, serving more than 22,000 health care professionals in the U.S., and abroad. Members are committed to delivering superior health care to women and newborns in hospitals, home health and ambulatory care settings, making AWHONN the voice for women's health and neonatal nursing.
More: visit their site


8) Feminist Majority Foundation
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. They believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.
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Arya is a mod?? :confused: :eek: