Throughout history, women (and their minor children) have been considered the property of men, without the right to self-determination, legally inferior.
The first country to grant women the right to vote was New Zealand in 1893, while in Liechtenstein it was not granted until 1984.
In Romania, in 1938, only women over the age of 30 who could read and write could receive a conditional vote, and unconditional voting was introduced in 1948.
Women's property rights were restricted in many European countries until the second half of the twentieth century.
The fifth goal in the set of seventeen, developed by the United Nations under the generic title Sustainable Development Goals, is to legitimize women in achieving gender equality by accessing various types of opportunities.
However, according to the Gender Equality Index, Romania ranks 26th out of 28 in 2020 (same place as in 2010) showing that if the European Union takes 60 years to reach equal opportunities between men and women, Romania would take over 100 years at the current pace of implementation.
