Gender studies are an important part of ethnomusicological research, but in Slovenia, not many studies or discussions have been dedicated to this topic. The position of a woman in the second half of the 20th century in Slovenia is, on the one hand, strongly connected to the socialist social system and its policy of equality, but, on the other, the article also reveals control mechanisms that maintained hierarchical positions between genders. Several cases of women public instrumental practices are described, with a focus on a narrative of a woman bell chimer through which the complexity of gender relationships in bell chiming is discovered and explained.Rodni su studiji važan dio etnomuzikologije, međutim u Sloveniji se tek mali broj istraživanja i rasprava bavi tim pitanjem. Položaj žene u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća u Sloveniji čvrsto je vezan uz socijalistički društveni sustav i njegovu politiku jednakosti, ali se u radu razotkrivaju i kontrolni mehanizmi koji su održavali hijerarhijske odnose između rodova. U radu su prikazani neki slučajevi javnih instrumentalnih praksi žena
