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The impact of social movements is usually ascribed to two sets of forces. The first set is external to the movement and the second internal. Political process approaches to social movements stress  the  importance  of  external  factors in  explaining  the  emergence,  the strategies  and  the  impact  of  social  movements. Framing approaches highlight how internal processes such as the formation of collective identity and solidarity contribute to the emergence of social movements and how social movements shape the very understanding of social problems. The Women’s Movement as an umbrella in Armenia included a lot of small civic initiatives looking at the role of women and problematizing the reality from perspectives within a highly conservative-patriarchal society: domestic violence, women’s role in conflict etc. The abovementioned activists enthusiastically took part in the Armenian 2018 Revolution hoping that the people’s candidate will try to find solution to the numerous problems that women face in Armenian reality. However, after a while and up until now, no observable policies have been introduced. The following set of questions will be discussed: How did the revolution affect women’s movements’ chances of success, and the forms they take? How do women’s movement protest tactics and strategies change over time, and why?