The question of women's rights in Russia: retrospective and perspective

The relevance of studying the question of women’s rights in Russia is determined by the persisting gender gap in the economic and career opportunities of women, their education and health, political rights and opportunities. The question of women’s rights arose as an understanding of the women’s roles and their position in Russian society, identified the issues of social inequality associated with the subordination and discrimination of women. The author proposes approaches to solving the question of women’s rights in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The main spheres of social life, the analysis of which requires an answer to the question of women’s rights are family, work, social and political activities of women. Currently, the question of women’s rights has transformed into a gender one, which in its content concerns the social status not only of women, but also of men, it becomes important to smooth out inequality and balance roles in the transformed social, political and economic reality.