According to the research the findings of which were published in the "Politicka Misao" journal, the share of streets and squares with the names honouring women is 15 times less than the share commemorating men.
To make things worse, streets named after women are usually small and far from the city centre or major intersections.
The Croatian capital has 70 squares and only three are with the female names: "Dubravkin Trg", "Trg Katarine Zrinske" and "Trg svete Marije Cucerske". Furthermore, 60% of squares are named after men, and those public spaces are in the centre of the town.
According to some data, there were 292 monuments and sculptures in Zagreb's public places in 2007, Of them, 145 represented male characters, and 108 were in memory of real male persons from the past.
A mere five monuments were in memory of women who played important roles in the past.
Likewise, the 51-seat Zagreb City Council has 36 male councillors (71%) and 15 female councillors (29%).
The authors of the research come to the conclusion that the monuments of the Croatian capital city and most developed urban centre reflect the male dominance in the society in which the private sphere is women's "proper place" and in which women are supposed to play the reproductive role.