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The author deals in the article with the issue of gender equality and positive measures aimed to gender equality. She briefly describes the terms of sex, gender, equality, and in particular positive measure, whose content depends on the individual forms of equality. She pays special attention to the regulation of positive measures in the context of European law. In the context of Slovak law she concentrates on a definition of the term „provisional compensatory measure“, a brief analysis of the Ruling of the Constitutional Court of SR PL. ÚS 8/04 and, in particular, criticises the absence of embodiment of any gender-based positive measures in Slovak legislation.