This graduate thesis presents the development and arrangement of the position of women in certain legal systems in Croatian areas. The paper describes the position of women through history and the first jobs they have dealt with, such as leather, food collection, cooking, serving husband and naturally birth. It also defines the family legal status of a woman, the property status of a married woman, the legal status of a woman as a mother, the legal position of a woman when she terminates a marriage, hereditary legal arrangement under the General Civil Code, all women who acquire the right as a widow, the criminal justice position of women and their start education and employment. The history of mankind begins with a woman. Science believes that women are the source of the first sex because the key genetic information passed on and transmitted over women. She wore the first human chromosome, its evolutionary adaptation ensured the survival and success of the kind, her motherly cares created in the human brain the incentive for the development of communication and social organization. On the position of women in society and affect a number of factors. It is important to emphasize that the position of a woman in a society can be taken as an indicator of the degree of development of that same society. Women's rights have not yet achieved equality with human rights and to the rights that men adopt and apply to themselves. Women are underpaid for the work they do in relation to men, are often victims of abuse, and very difficult to come to important jobs. In the east, the position of women is far worse than in the West, precisely because women are deprived of education, health care and the right to vote. With the development of society have been achieved significant progress as regards the position of women in the labor market. Regardless of the high level of education and expertise of women, they are still discriminated against in terms of employment, wages and further progress.