In the 1970s, there was a movement of women who considered organising a movement independent of political parties. In April 1971, Marina Busignani Reffi founded the ''Comitato per l'emancipazione della donna sammarinese'' (Committee for the Emancipation of San Marino Women), which was made up of
Busignani Reffi,
Graziella Rossini,
Luciana Franchini and
Emma Rossi. Their initial demands included the possibility of holding public and civil offices, equal pay, pensions for housewives, etc. The
Captains Regent accepted passive suffrage for women and legal and social emancipation, but after months without any measures being implemented and a political crisis, the Committee managed to form a Commission at the
Grand and General Council to study the demands. They achieved measures such as pensions for housewives, legal and social emancipation, passive suffrage and more property rights for widows with the 1973 Law 10 September, no. 29, "Equal rights for women". Starting in 1972, the Committee began to evolve towards a more organised structure, and the UDS itself considers that year to be its founding year. The first directive council was formed in 1974 and obtained legal recognition from the
Council of Twelves in October 1975. They presented the recovery and the new project on 17 September. The referendum question was published on 15 March 2021, after the
RETE Movement and the Union of Sammarinese Women collected enough signatures. ==Organizational structure==