most significantly the constitution guarantees equality between women and men prohibits all forms of discrimination against women and requires the state to promote womens rights in their entirety while these momentous changes have been welcome considerable work remains to be done in aligning all domestic laws with international human rights treaties to which morocco is a state party and ensuring that all groups of women benefit from the equal protection of the law see story counting women in analysis of data across these countries suggests that womens political agency especially the influence of autonomous feminist movements is an important catalyst for family law reform in both authoritarian and democratic settings womens rights advocates have seized political opportunities for equalityenhancing legal reforms by establishing alliances with other actors including government officials lawyers politicians and development practitioners