The article is a brief presentation of the status and role of Slovene women in various fìelds in the years 1900-1918, in a period, in which they proved they were as capable as men were and thus equal with them. The first attempts of feminist movement before 1900 grew into an active one and reached its peak during World War I, when women showed them courage, resoluteness and self-conlidence. That period united the towns-woman and the working woman. Men accepted them as equalpartners.