Gender Policies

How has the image of women developed and which impacts has it had in postsocialism? Does the term "patriarchal renaissance" fit to describe the current developement? - The Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation in a interview.

Olga Voronina, Director of the Moscow Center for Gender Studies, about gender censorship, the negative image of feminism, the historical roots of feminism and about human rights and mass media in today's Russia.

How has gender equality been in the Soviet Union? Which role have quotas played and in which relationship has the Soviet Union been to feminism? - These and further questions answers the sociologist

The head of the Centre for Social and Political Studies, Institute for USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about stengths and weaknesses of the women's movement in Russia and about political participation.

The Co-Chair of the Council for the Consolidation of the Women’s Movement in Russia about labor rights, political rights and the connection between democratization processes in the russian society, the women's movement and gender equality.

The UN expert on gender equality issues about the situation of women on the labor market and about the aims which the women's movement should adopt.

This jubilee year of marking International Women’s Day and women solidarity within Montenegrin context sharpens a painful paradox lived by women wedged between socrealistic past and democratic future in, as it seems, intransient transitional present.

How do feminists in Serbia perceive March 8? Do they believe that International Women’s Day is still relevant, especially in the country with socialist legacy? Do feminists in Serbia feel that March 8 is “the day of their own”? - A summary of the research by

This essay analyzes the influence of stereotypes in schools and the education system on the development of gender roles. It illustrates the differences between female and male students in schools and universities with respect to their academic performance, attitudes, expectations, and typical behavior patterns and analyzed the biological and social causes and reasons for these differences.