The project started during the 1990s in Romania. It was the first after the communist period which targeted Rromani women.

On November 17 and 18, 2017, the Asociación Gitanas Feministas por la Diversidad organized in Madrid, Spain, the First Congress on Romani Feminism.

The Rromani Women's Gala was a voluntary based feminist initiative, started by four Rromani and non-Rromani women in 2011 in Romania.

This legal concept was for the first time introduced in Romanian legislation in 2006.