Women's history has become increasingly popular over the past few decades, but it was only in the past decade that interest for the history of women's migration movements increased as well. Just as women were generally less noticeable in the past, emigrant women too remained somehow unnoticed in the 'asexual' emigration wave, both world-wide and in Slovenia. The article deals with the attitude toward Slovenian emigrant women and their public appearance both at the time of the first US pioneer women in the middle of the 19th century and in the days of mass emigration at the beginning of the 20th century. It depicts the political activities of left-wing Slovenian women in France in the nineteenthirties, and the public activities of emigrant women refugees among the Slovenian political emigrés in Argentina in the days of Tito's Yugoslavia.