Este texto es una versión ampliada y revisada de una comunicación presentada en el III Congreso Andaluz de Sociología celebrado en Granada (España) el 17 de noviembre de 2006.This article analyzes the situation of women in Moroccan society from the perspective of social change. From the viewpoint of social change as a multidimensional process, the main sociodemographic variables are discussed and the course of the women’s prorights movement and the Family Code reform are examined. The authors find that although real progress has been made over the last fifty years, much remains to be done. Furthermore, there are indications that the incipient participation by women in the public sphere too often continues to reproduce systems of subordination.Peer reviewed