Women organized demonstrations and worked in underground, collecting supplies for the guerrillas, selling bonds to raise money, creating hospitals, sewing uniforms, and hiding revolutionaries in their houses. Some women became guerrillas' fighters. There was also a group of women's combatants called the Marina Grajalas platoon. More than 970 new schools were build. Percentage of women working rose from 25 to 32 percent of the work force.
More families have access to home appliances.
This law provides for 18 weeks of paid leave, six weeks before birth and 12 weeks after, with 18 other clays of before and after birth for parental medical checkups and for taking the new born baby to the doctor. Due to excellent public health care system, there has also been a big improvement in care at the maternity hospitals. Women have the right to abort on demand, free of charge as are all medical services. Public clinics also make contraception free and available to all women. There has been some progress on the election of women to leadership position although this is still view as an area of weakness.