[1] When Mihaela Miroiu founded the gender studies master's degree program in 1998 at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, she acquired grants from the European Union and the United Nations along with other organizations to support research and publications for the department.
[5] Academic Maria Bucur notes that Mihăilescu's The Emancipation of the Romanian Woman: Study and Anthology of Texts (in two volumes) were pioneering publications for the development of the history of feminism and women in Romania.
Despite this, Bucur criticized Mihăilescu for rejecting inclusion in the documents selected, works by persons who produced scholarly publications during the communist regime.
More problematic to Bucur was the depiction of a pro-democratic spirit among Romanian women of the interwar period, when evidence clearly showed that there were fissures between ethnic Romanians and Germans, Hungarians, and Jews as well as other ethnic minorities and that women activists were contrary, behaving inclusively when it was beneficial and at other times behaving in xenophobic or anti-Semitic ways when separation between themselves and others was desired.
Cheşchebec noted that Mihăilescu's analysis spurred other academics, like Bucur and Miroiu, creator of the first graduate program of gender studies in Bucharest, to expand the knowledge feminist history.