To provide a female member for a hook-and-loop fastener, which raises fewer naps after the exfoliation of a male material, is easy to peel off, makes less peeling sound, is capable of bearing clear printed patterns, offers a soft texture, is pearmeable to gas, and enables the vaccum carriage on production.

This female member for a hook-and-loop fastener is a nonwoven fabric that is made of continuous fibers with a fineness of 1.1 to 11 dtex, containing 1 to 20 percent by weight of an aromatic copolymeric polyester (melting point:Tm2≤Tm1-30°C) to an aromatic polyester (melting point:Tm1), and that has a basis weight of 20 to 80 g/m2. The surface of the nonwoven fabric is bonded by heat, and subjected to embossing working having a surface ratio of 10 to 60 percent of its surface.