The Uruguayan legislation maintains that the women of Uruguay have equal rights to power, authority, and privileges".

In reality, however, women are still not occupying "higher economic, professional, political, social, and religious positions".

[14] According to a 2018 United Nations study, Uruguay has the second-highest rate of killings of women by current or former partners in Latin America, after Dominican Republic.

In 2012, Uruguay become the second country in Latin America, after Cuba, to legalize elective abortion (during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy).

[21] Beatriz Argimón was one of the founders of the Women's Caucus in Uruguayan parliament before she was elected vice president.

[22] Asunción Lavrin, Women, Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, 1890–1940 (Nebraska Press, 1995)