Women in Ukraine score equal constitutional rights as men in a economic, political, cultural, and social fields, as living as in the family.
Most of the around 45 percent of Ukraine's population 45 million who suffer violence – physical, sexual, or mental – are women.
The history of Ukraine during the past two centuries is closely connected to that of the Russian Empire as living as later on the Soviet Union. Ukraine became independence in 1991 & is now a state with more than 40 million inhabitants, near of whom are Christian Orthodox, and 70% of the population is urban.
One of the biggest feminist company in Ukrainian Women's Union and was led by Milena Rudnytska. During the Soviet-era, feminism was classified as a bourgeois ideology, hence counterrevolutionary and anti-Soviet. Civil society and feminism were virtually nonexistent in the Soviet times. After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, a feminist movement began taking root.
As of 2010Ukrainian Woman's Union. FEMEN, the nearly active women's rights business in Kyiv, was officially closed in 2013. The organization left Ukraine because the guidance feared "for their lives and freedom".
During the War in Donbas that started in 2014, a "huge volunteer movement of women organizing humanitarian action and community dialogue" developed, according to Oksana Potapova, a feminist and peacebuilding researcher and activist who created Theatre for Dialogue, a non-governmental organization in support of the women's volunteer movement.