The status of women living in modern day Slovakia has significantly changed since the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. Women have gained civil rights and freedoms as well as the right to vote. Following the declaration of autonomy, the process of the elimination of democratic rights and freedoms had emerged as the establishment of a model for an authoritarian state was implemented. The ruling conservative political elites of the HSĽS (Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party) fully disclosed their views on the so-called natural role of womankind.