Algerian women can inherit property (In accordance with the family law derived from Islamic Sharia in the distribution of inheritance between men and women), obtain a divorce, retain custody of their children, gain an education and work in many sectors of society.

[11] Also, according to a UNESCO report published in February 2021, entitled the Race against Time for Smarter Development, Algeria has a female engineer graduate proportion of 48.5%.

[13] As a result, the life of Algerian women long remained unchanged and all reforms were slow, when they occurred at all.

[14] While Eugénie Allix Luce founded a school in 1840s that did accept Algerian girls as students, this was an isolated example.

[18] As a result, the Algerians remained very conservative in regard to women's rights, with the exception of a small educated elite, and suggestions of reforms in the Islamic family law was met with intense resistance in the 1930s.

The majority of Muslim women who became active participants did so on the side of the National Liberation Front (FLN).

The French included some women in their war effort, but they were not as fully integrated, nor were they charged with the same breadth of tasks as their Algerian sisters.

Urban women, who constituted about twenty percent of the overall force, had received some kind of education and usually chose to enter on the side of the FLN of their own accord.

[24] Largely illiterate rural women, on the other hand, the remaining eighty percent, due to their geographic location in respect to the operations of FLN often became involved in the conflict as a result of proximity paired with force.

"Women participated actively as combatants, spies, fundraisers, as well as nurses, launderers, and cooks",[25] "women assisted the male fighting forces in areas like transportation, communication and administration",[26] the range of involvement by a woman could include both combatant and non-combatant roles.

While the majority of the tasks that women undertook centered on the realm of the non-combatant, those that surrounded the limited number that took part in acts of violence were more frequently noticed.

[28] So, gender roles changed only during the war for independence, after that women were asked to return to the original tasks of housewives.

However, with the overthrow of Ben Bella and the rule of Boumediene in 1965 he started transforming the country to return to its “Arab Islamic roots”[30] In the 1960s and 1970s Algerian society has determined every aspect in women’s public and private life.

The problems Algerian women faced should be seen through a wider lens, in the context of economic development and education.

[31] It was only in September 1981 with the family code when the Algerian women who participated in the war for independence decided to step into politics again and protest this project publicly.

Article 11 prevents women from arranging their own marriage contracts unless represented by a matrimonial guardian”.

In 2012, Algerian women occupied 31 percent of parliamentary seats, placing the country 26th worldwide and 1st in the Arab world.

[34] In 2012 political reforms were established, with the support of the United Nations Development Program, to provide a legal framework that granted women 30 percent representation in elected assemblies.

[34] On the local level, the rate was only 18 percent, due to the fact that it was difficult to find women willing to appear on ballots in the communes.

Even though Algerian women by law have the right to access bank loans and are free to negotiate financial or business contracts, these actions are usually restricted by their husbands.

Under this law, it was a legal duty for women to obey their husbands in everything, they did not have the right to apply for a divorce unless they choose to give up their alimony.