One hundred years ago an American woman who showed up at the voting booth, seeking the right to vote, risked being sent to prison. In educated Britain judges once measured with a ruler the instruments used by law-abiding male citizens to beat their wives: if the length and thickness of these means of “teaching a lesson” did not exceed the well known dimensions, the offender [the one doing the beating] was not subject to punishment.

By Nadezhda Azhgihkina (from the notebook of a Russian participant)

By Ellen Chances "The lovers who kiss on public benches, Public benches, public benches,… Telling each other touching 'I love you'" -- from "Les amoreux des bancs publics," song by Georges Brassens Young, tall, and awkward, they had been college lovers, she, for the first time, and he, for the umpteenth. He had tried to calm her fears, that first night in his dorm room, by playing a record of Mozart's "Jupiter Symphony." She was scared anyhow.

Feminism Comes to the World's Mass Media According to the latest sociological research, the majority of Russians would not like to have a women as their immediate boss, whether as head of a laboratory, factory overseer or editor-in-chief. We are not the exception: the same picture presents itself in the majority of other countries. But in the last few years skirt-wearing bosses are turning up more and more often in business everywhere -- the media included.

Women Benefit Less from Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe by Katalin Medvedev Katalin Medvedev currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Eotvos Lorand Pedagogical College. She received a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa in Women's Studies, as well as a Certificate in Women's Studies and Leadership at George Washington University. She has extensive experience in the women's movement.

Dear Editors, I would like to propose a new theme for discussion (I have already noticed that your magazine is inclined toward serious conversation on the most varied problems, and in this sense the word “dialogue” in your title is fully justified.). I propose discussing the situation of women in contemporary science, both in Russia and abroad. Today women make up the majority of people with higher education and many have devoted themselves to science.

In New York, our country was represented by over 20 women, both official delegation members and activists from women’s organizations. The discussions left no one feeling indifferent. Galina Karelova, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Development, leader of the official delegation – My impressions are vivid ones. It is clear that women still take a lot in on the emotional level.