It is very interesting to see right now, at the turn of the millennia, how women look on the scale of world history. It is believed that the academic discussion about when the matrilinear society was replaced by patrilinear, which was started 150 years ago by the famous work of Bakhoven Matriarchy, is over.

In the Egyptian parliament (national assembly), hot debates unfolded around the bill on the introduction of amendments in the country's family legislation. The proposed amendments will simplify the divorce procedure for women.

The contradictions between the American and French feminism of the 70s. The main difference between the French and American feminist theory of the 70s was, according to Alice Jarden, who specifically devoted to the study of this problem the famous book Gynesis. The configuration of women and the present (1985)*, in different attitude to the problems of female subjectivity: if the general task of French feminist thinking was denaturation of the concepts of liberalism and humanism.

One of the significant events of the last time is the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary from the day of the publication of one of the most famous books of modernity - the work of the French philosopher -worker and writer Simona de Bovoir “The Second Paul”. From January 19 to January 23, 1999, the international colloquium “Fifty anniversary of the second sex” was held in Paris, which took place under the auspices of UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture of France.

Two weeks before the election in the State Duma of the third convocation, “Independent Gazeta” published my article “Will the battalions of the Amazons come to the elections?”. They came. But, alas, they cast their votes not to female electoral movements and female leaders, but to candidates from the Communist Party, “Unity”, “Fatherland - All of Russia”, “Union of Right Forces”, “Bloc of Zhirinovsky”, and “Yabloko”.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, whom relatives and friends call Anna, is the granddaughter of the former US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, outstanding in all respects of the leaders of the twentieth century. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the president grew up at the end of the nineteenth century.

From the struggle for the equality of women to a new view of history and philosophy Gloria Styem is the most famous feminist North America, leading popular television programs, creator of MS. Magazine ”, the author of many books, including the fundamental work“ Revolution within us ”, which the researchers of many countries compared Simona de Bovoir with the“ feminism ”of the second sex. discrimination, primarily in wages.

Information The work of the program in 2000 is based on the most promising initiatives of Russian female organizations with which the ZhSP IOO Russia worked since 1998-1999. And which are aimed at the most critical and important issues of gender relations in Russia of the transition period at the turn of the next century and the coming millennium.

I well remember our first Moscow conversation with a professor from Pittsburgh Elena Zhel. It was 1989, all intellectual Moscow discussed the new publications of the “light” and “banner”, the civil war in literature between “Westerners” and “soils” was boiling, the desire for change and renewal was in the air.

A few years ago, in the newspaper AtomPress, I caught my eye on a survey of high -ranking officials and heads of large enterprises of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy. The female section of the POCSISISISH NURALLER SOCIENTS, on the eve of International Women's Day on March 8, offered its “atomic” men to answer two questions: what role will women play in the technology of the 21st century? What measures should be taken to make women operators at the Russian nuclear power plant?

The declared topic is very extensive, it is completely impossible to cover it completely. Therefore, we will talk about individual personalities, periods and phenomena that seem to me significant for understanding the role of artists in the history of visual art of the twentieth century.

The most amazing thing that he finally came, this long -awaited year, with which hopes, expectations, fantastic projects, all kinds of contests, prizes, a wide variety of events, predictments are the end of the world, then approaching a new era similar to paradise on Earth. Some magic for millions of people consisted in this figure-2000, and probably many of us unconsciously waited for ourselves personally something new.

Five years have passed on the basis of WWW technology (World Wide Web - a widespread web) began to form a new information space “without borders” - the Internet. Currently, the possibilities of the Internet are generating the illusion of the emerging free cyberspace.