Women in Bulgaria of men and women in family law. This is explicitly stipulated in the Family Code, Art 2, which defines seven principles of family relations, one of which is "equality between the man and the woman". This is reinforced at Art 13, titled, "Equality between spouses" which states: "The spouses shall have equal rights and obligations in the matrimony." Despite legal equality, societal norms of the Balkan culture often consider the wife to be in a position of subordination to the husband. Bulgaria is part of the paradox of many Eastern European societies: a long tradition of involvement of women in
Women in Estonia as Rõugutaja. First woman cleric Laine Villenthal was ordinated in 1967 by Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Women in Estonia Women in Estonia are women who were born in, who live in, or are from Estonia in Europe. Estonian women first gained the right to vote from Russia's Provisional Government in 12th of April 1917 together with Estonia being granted a national autonomy as a unified entity. Between 1970 and 1990, the total fertility rate (TFR - the average number of children a woman bears) of Estonian women was little over 2 children born per woman. A fast decrease of the