The work shows the position and role of women in society in today's Croatia from the beginning of the Second World War to the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The aim of the paper is to explain the position of women in the mentioned period, and how the position defined their role within the society at that time. The war years influenced the changing position and role of women in society. The Ustaše regime introduces novelties regarding the integration of women in society, which influenced their emancipation in the post-war years. The transformation of a patriarchal society into a modern democratic society is visible, in which women are beginning to be seen more seriously. Although the war years allowed them greater emancipation, the relations between a man and a woman continued to change slowly. The paper chronologically shows the changing position and role of women in society, their roles, and the ways in which modernities from the West influenced their greater emancipation. Americanization enabled the penetration of novelties into the territory of the SFRY, especially Croatia, and also influenced the position of women in society, the way the environment treats them, and how their position and role in society is perceived. Feminist ideas from the West are accepted and nurtured, but they could not change the still patriarchal society. Society retains traditional opinions and the relationship about and to women, what their role is, and how their role is perceived and experienced, thus much of the work is devoted to collective social thinking about the role of women in society. The argumentation of the above primarily uses periodical material, magazines intended for women Ustaškinja, Svijet, books intended for women, Knjiga za svaku ženu, and legislative acts adopted during the Second World War on the territory of the then Independent State of Croatia Laws, legal provisions and orders, constitutions adopted in post-war years, and secondary literature dealing with the mentioned.