While constructs of gender impact how women view their social roles in relation to men, they also affect how women perceive the potential for change within these roles. Gender has become a frequent frame for studies of women and women’s roles in society; however, more inclusive gender analyses that engage in the plurality of gender, men’s social roles, and ideas of masculinity are rare. Women’s NGOs are the dominant venues within Egyptian civil society that work with or on behalf of women. Yet despite this exclusive self-definition, these NGOs consistently negotiate the implicit discourse of men’s social roles and masculinity. This paper investigates how and to what capacity within this environment, women’s NGOs serve as vehicles for education, advocacy, and change of gender discourses. The growing group of active women’s NGOs and increasing public dialogue on women’s issues make these NGOs a prime location for an assessment into how gender constructs are understood and challenged. By researching production and negotiation of gender subjectivity within women’s NGOs, the paper addresses two main research questions: How do members of women’s NGOs understand gender, masculinity, and male social roles? How do these interpretations of gender constructs impact the work of these organizations? This study serves as an important contribution to the growing body of literature that holistically engages with gender, bridging the gap between texts on women and texts on men. The paper combines personal interviews with participant-observation at three NGOs, which share common features: being women-focused, secularly based, and with memberships and constituencies that are predominantly upper middle-class. By addressing the above research questions on two levels—discourse and practice—this paper engages the multitude of influences that challenge and impact these organizations’ membership and their understandings of gender. In doing so, the paper argues that understandings of femininity and masculinity must be approached in concert with one another and that the ways through which gender subjectivity is produced in these NGOs affects the goals and objectives of these organizations, informing future shifts in gender constructs.