Women in Estonia

On 26 January 2021, Kaja Kallas became the first female prime minister of Estonia.

In 2001, the United Nations reported through its annual world-population report that "Estonia was one of the fastest-shrinking nations on earth, at risk of losing nearly half its 1.4 million people by mid-century".

To prevent this drop in TFR, one of the steps the Estonian government took since 2004 was to start "paying" women by providing them with subsidies "to have babies" known as "mother's salary".

[7] As in many other European countries, the link between marriage and fertility has been weakened during the past decades: most children today are born outside of marriage (59% of children were born to unmarried women in 2014).

First woman cleric Laine Villenthal was ordinated in 1967 by Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church.