The Fabian Women’s Network was launched in 2005.

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist means.

Founded in 1884 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, it is Britain’s oldest political think tank, and has since then been at the forefront of developing political ideas and public policy on the left.

The Society laid many of the foundations of the Labour Party and subsequently affected the policies of states emerging from the decolonisation of the British Empire, most notably India and Singapore.