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While feminist ideology started gaining popularity in the mid-19th and early 20th century in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States, and slowly the rest of the world, the movement did not gain common traction in Greece until almost a century later.
The first change came in 1952 when Greek women gained the right to vote.[1] However, changes of day-to-day significance did not come until a few decades later with the reforms of family law in 1983.[2][3][4] Greece signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and ratified it in 1983.[5]
In larger cities like Athens, younger women have a more integrated role in society and the community;[1] however, in most areas of Greece (particularly rural region), there is a strong patriarchal tradition.[6] One of the underlying ideas that fuel this structure is that women are "naturally" associated with the domestic area of the workforce, which carries a smaller weight than the larger workforce that men are typically involved in.[7]