Subject of research: Among refugees all over the world who seek asylum in foreign countries women and girls constitute almost a half. This statistical data is based on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The reasons why women more often than ever wish to obtain refugee status are very varied, ranging from social, political, religious or moral persecutions to human trafficking or transplant aims. These are not, however, the reasons that may be categorized as a cumulative catalogue. Unfortunately, the development of the contemporary world implies more and more reasons as well as new forms of violating women’s rights, who are forced to leave their countries of origin. Purpose of research: On the basis of these crucial problems, the following article has been devoted to this problem. Its main is to characterize what the UNHCR process of creating standard for implementing gender presumption to refugee procedures looked like. Even though over 65 years have passed since the adoption of the Convention on the Status of Refugees of 1951, one should still conduct theoretical practices and practical actions that shall sanction persecution of women, in this case providing the international protection, i.e. granting refugee status. Methods: In the following dissertation the methods of analyzing legal acts and documents, mainly international ones, have been used. Aditionally, the study included the positions of legal doctrine as well as statistical data.