This working paper is aiming at the relation between social changes and ruling gender relations, focussing on women. Section 2 of this paper presents the theoretical framework. The thesis I want to develop here is that gender identities are effects of discourses which are reproduced through power-mechanisms, stabilized trough constant iteration and are naturalized in the end. Section 3 describes the different historical and social influences, which have built different gender roles and relations. Section 4 specifies the current hegemonically defined roles for women in the post doi moi era. Section 5 concludes by forecasting emancipatory and progressive facilities to improve gender relations and establish more (gender) equality.