These three first Lodges used the Adoption Rite and a research commission was set up to implement new rituals, more in line with those used by men's Lodges.

From the end of 1959, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite became the official rite of the GLFF.
The three degrees of the AASR were later complemented from the 4th to the 33rd with the constitution of the Suprême Conseil Féminin de France (Feminine Supreme Council of France), which was installed in London on April 19,1970 by the Feminine Supreme Council of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and proclaimed on June 12, 1972. The Sovereign Great Commander was Gisèle Faivre.

Some Sisters remained deeply attached to their original rite as they considered that it enabled women to express their genuine essential nature, reaching beyond male-female polarities. This is why those Sisters unwilling to accept the ritual changes, created a new independent Lodge, working in the adoption rite, "Cosmos", in Clichy la Garenne, a suburb of Paris.
Some 20 years later, on January 5, 1977, "Cosmos" joined the GLFF, thus keeping the roots of the obedience alive.

On May 6, 1961, "Themis" in Limoges was the first Lodge founded at the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
During that decade, 21 new Lodges were created, among which the first Swiss Lodge "Lutèce" in Geneva. The next ten years witnessed a rapid growth of Lodges, both in France and neighbouring European countries.
These were pioneering times for women Masons: undaunted, always available, they joined forces to create Lodges and lend them a hand in their early years. Sharing cars or train compartments, they met for happy, sisterly, but also studious journeys.
From 1970 to 1980, 70 Lodges were born:

During that decade, the GLFF opened up to other rites.

In February 1973, the Grand Orient de France handed the patent of the French Rite to the Grande Loge Féminine de France. On March 10, the first Lodge at the French Rite, "Unité" was founded, rapidly followed by many others. The degrees of the French Rite were complemented in 1999 with the transmission of the Orders of the French Rite and with the creation of the "Grand Chapitre Général Féminin de France" (Feminine Grand Chapter of France").

On October 8, 1974, the Lodge "L'Arbre de Vie" was founded in Lyon at the Rectified Scottish Rite. A Lodge of Saint Andrews was subsequently created in 2000.

In March 1978, a very special Lodge with an evocative name "La Rose des Vents", was given the mission of initiating women, worldwide. It contributed to the creation of many Lodges outside French borders.

The GLFF was then to develop steadily in France as well as abroad. The first African Lodge "Fleur des Temps" was founded in Lomé, Togo, on the 9th of February 1991.
In Europe, Lodges opened in Spain, Portugal, and Hungary. Others were created in Mauritius, in several African countries, in French Overseas Territories, Canada and Venezuela.
Since the beginning of the 21rst century, development abroad has continued with Lodges in Central Europe: in Poland, Czech Republic...

The GLFF eventually chartered Swiss, Belgian and Portuguese Lodges, which subsequently constituted themselves as national Grand Lodges:

All these Grand Lodges have been members of CLIMAF (International Liaison Centre for Feminine Masonry) since its creation in 1983. German and Italian Lodges, as well as a Greek one, joined later.

Very recently, The Grande Loge Féminine de France created and chartered the Gran Logia simbolica de Venezuela (april 30, 2005) and the Gran Logia Femenina de Espana (june 4, 2005).