This work intends to analyze the effectiveness of the Colombian normative compilation in the guarantee of women's rights, emphasizing the protection measures that have been designed so women can safeguard themselves from violence and undertake their life project. It is based on a qualitative methodology with an explanatory approach based on the bibliographic method that is, on a systematic and critical review of the national regulations on the protection of women, contrasted with real events. The conclusions reached allow us to infer that with the international normative development of women’s protection, a legal revolution was generated in Colombia that culminated in a solid compilation of instruments in favor of women but that the gap between women and men, what is and what ought to be, has not been closed, leaving women without protection in the scenarios of violence.