Eva Sopkova is one of the first specialists (psychologist) who worked in the praxis from feminist perspective. She views the violence against women as the result of power asymmetry in a patriarchal ideological system.

MONA Foundation for the Women of Hungary is aiming to initiate public debates on women’s and men’s status and roles in a democratic society, and the still persisting problem of gender inequalities.

The text explained why women’s question was beyond class differences, as women were still treated as second class citizens while issues such as their unpaid domestic work, men’s violence to women, all the disadvantages that women faced in work and education, were issues for all women, because of their gender and not because of their social origins.

This report is submitted for the 32nd CEDAW session held in January 2005.