Previously viewed as fundamentally patriarchal, now the state is analysed in its relations of power, class, social and economic groups in feminist perspective, also state's instruments for subordination of women, structuration and influence of gender roles and relations, and in more positive vision - positive economic policies for lessening of the financial dependency of women on men, analyses of the "promotion - of women’s interests within the state, either through the action of ‘femocrats’ (feminist bureaucrats) working from within the state system to empower women, or when the state itself acts in a way to further women’s status (Stetson and Mazur 1995)".