6 December 2012
6 Dec. the Gorbachev Foundation held an international conference "The 21st Century Woman: New Opportunities and New Challenges"6 December , 2012 the Gorbachev Foundation hosted an international conference The 21st Century Woman: New Opportunities and New Challenges. The conference was co-organised by The International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation), the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Memorial International Society. The conference was held within the frameworks of the Gorbachev Readings Project. Mikhail Gorbachev took part in the conference work.
The Conference was co-hosted by Olga Zdravomyslova (The Gorbachev Foundation) and Irina Kosterina (The Heinrich Böll Foundation).
Conference ProgrammeSession 1. Women in a Globalizing World: Agenda for the 21st Century
Lessons of the 20th Century: Progress toward gender equality
Unresolved problems and new opportunities for women and men
Changes in the woman’s situation and role in the 21st Century: An attempt at forecasting
Christa Wichterich, social scientist, writer, member of the Women in Development Europe (WIDE)
Claudia Mitchell, James McGill Professor, McGill University, Canada
Jens Siegert, social scientist, Director of the Böll Foundation in Russia
Donna Norton, National Campaign Director at MomsRising, spouse of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul
Lyudmila Popkova, Director of the Samara Gender Studies Center, expert with the UN WOMEN CIS SRO
Boris Bilenkin, the Memorial International Society
Open Discussion
Session 2. Russian Women: Between the Past and the Present
Change in destiny? From the Soviet woman to the 21st Century Russian woman
How Russian society views gender equality
Women as agents of social change
Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Secretary of the Union of Russian Journalists
Alena Popova, Founder and Managing Partner, Open Project Foundation
Grigory Kertman, head of analytical research at the Public Opinion Foundation;
Olga Kamenchuk, sociologist, communications director with the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Study (VTsIOM).
Open Discussion
Round Table: Opportunities and Challenges for the New Generation
The family, children, career: Changes in life strategies
Are there grounds to believe that the younger generation is becoming more opposed to gender inequality?
Civic activism by young men and women and the prospects for gender equality
Larisa Pautova, social scientist, Programme Director
Natalia Bitten, journalist
Yulia Ostrovskaya, lawyer, Labour Rights Centre
Nikolai Vinnik, journalist
Pamela Teitelbaum, researcher at McGill University, Canada
Zhanna Chernova, social scientist at the Higher School of Economics State University – St. Petersburg
Boris Denisov, demographer, Moscow State University Professor
Aleksandr Molokhov, lawyer
Photos by the Gorbachev Foundation (Dmitry Belanovsky)
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The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us - all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all faiths - must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.
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