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Abstrac As the characteristics of urban society with modern, practical and rational characteristics, the people of Denpasar City are also inseparable from this condition. Modernity and globalization which are full of values of equality, gender issues and other values of liberalism are also issues that are present amidst the changes that occur in the people of Denpasar. This study was aimed at finding out how far the role of women in Balinese Hindu families experienced a shift, what caused the condition to occur. To explore further about the shifting role of women in Hindu families in Denpasar in this study using a method using qualitative approaches. There are some shifts in the role of women in Hindu families in the city of Denpasar, including among others: shifts in the social system which includes; descent withdrawal systems, kinship groups, relationships, social staratification, livelihood systems, education systems, pergeran also occur in religious life in women in Hindu families in the city of Denpasar. As for the cause of the shift is globalization that brings new values, and the economic condition of Hindu families.