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•feminism as a movement began in Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
•Women across the US and Europe began fighting for their rights.

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•Women from the US, UK, and Ireland in particular sparked an international feminist movement in the mid-nineteenth century •They began advocating for women’s suffrage and other feminist causes.

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•For centuries, Greece, particularly in the rural areas, was an incredibly patriarchal society in which women were not afforded equal rights in the home, school, or workplace.

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•Women in Greece did not gain the right to vote until 1952.

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•Kalliroi Parren is widely considered to have founded the feminist movement in Greece.

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•Fluent in Russian, Italian, French, and English, Parren was highly intelligent and dedicated to spreading knowledge, a passion that led her to become a teacher.

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•After traveling around the world to teach girls, Parren settled in Athens and married the French journalist Jean Parren.
•While in Athens, Parren became focused on women’s rights to equal educational and employment opportunities, ideas which were unheard of at the time.

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•She focused less on suffrage, as she believed providing women access to employment and education would slowly but surely allow men to understand that women’s suffrage was necessary.

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•Parren began a feminist newspaper entitled Ladies’ Journal  in 1887. The publication was radical in that it was run entirely by women, and Parren often featured the work of the most famous and talented contemporary Greek women writers.
•The paper ran until 1917, when Parren was exiled to the Greek island of Hydra by Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos because she opposed Greece’s position in World War I, favoring the Triple Entente.

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The Ladies Journal was incredibly influential in that it exposed Greek society to the concepts of equality, feminism, and women’s rights, which were not prominent ideas at the time, and mirrored the changing role of women in Greek society, particularly in major cities like Athens.

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•The movement faded into the background until the 1950s, however, as Greece suffered a series of national tragedies, including the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922, the Nazi occupation of the country, and the ensuing Greek Civil War. Such events left little opportunity for feminism to develop in the country.

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•Following this period of turmoil, Greece set its sights to modernizing and westernizing the country. This involved not only a major migration from rural villages to cities but also to a re-examination of many traditional aspects of Greek society, including the roles of women.

•Across Greece, women were still associated with the home and domestic life, and they did not play a major role in politics, art, or public life, except in a few isolated cases.

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•In 1952, Greek women finally gained the right to vote when Law 2159 was enacted, which was a major, albeit delayed, step toward equality of the sexes in Greece. The first election in which women were allowed to vote was in 1956.

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•After women gained the right to vote, their role in Greek society began to change.
•The number of women in the workplace and in higher education boomed in Greece during the 1960s and throughout the 1970s.