The topic of this thesis is the legal position of women in Croatian areas 1848. – 1918. The main source in Hungary and Croatia was Tripartit accepted by the Hungarian Parliament in 1514. and remained valid until the introduction of the General Civil Code in 1853. This thesis describes the position of women according to medieval legal sources that were valid until 1848. and the position of women after the introducing of the General Civil Code. Church laws have played a major role in defining marriage hence only the church marriage was legal and could not be broken, but the church court could separate spouses from the table and bed. A widespread medieval conception implied that only the presence of a man at home could guarantee women’s honour and honesty. Prior of the processing of the legal position of women in terms of property position, marital status, marriage, marital affairs, hereditary rights and employment of women, the revolutionary year of 1848. is described as well as an overview of the most significant reforms. The home cooperative has been mentioned as the usual way of organizing life and work at the serf settlements in Croatia. Women’s right to vote at the local elections in 1881 has been stated as a major step towards gender equality. Women got a right to vote on local elections under the same conditions as men by the Law of townships. Soon in 1886, women lost the right to vote.