Impact of passing from communism to democracy over women’ rights
Impact of passing from communism to democracy over women’ rights

Summary/Abstract: Once the communist period was over various social changes for both sexes were noticed in the society. The structure of society as a whole has experienced significant changes during the transition from communism to constitutional democracies. However, women seem to have had less to gain from the transition period because men were those who had the advantage both in terms of access to political and economical power. After the 90’s different construction of individual identities were largely circumscribed to the limits imposed by existing ideologies. Since the beginning of the transition period it was intended to create in post-communist countries feminist organizations like those existing in Western societies in order to provide the necessary support for social, political and economic aspects of women. The reaction was characterized by a strong skepticism which shows remnants of the Marxist discourse in transition societies. Thus the social differences in both types of cultures, the communist and Western become obvious.

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