Statistics
1. The female population of Russia, according to the latest (2010) All-Russian census, by 10.5 million people prevails over the male population.
2. 70% of officials at all levels in our country are women.
3. There are many representatives of the "weak half of humanity" in law enforcement agencies. In the court and prosecutor's office, out of 5 employees, 4 are women.
4. Driving a car is no longer a male prerogative: every fourth car is driven by a motorist.
5. Women are predominantly employed in education, health care and social services.
6. Another industry where women are the overwhelming majority is trade.
7. The number of female students in Russian universities is 56%.
8. Every sixth crime committed in the country is on the conscience of "lovely ladies".
9. Only 4% of robberies and hooliganism of the total number of crimes of this kind are marked by the participation of female representatives.
10. The most common female name on Earth is Anna.
Politics and social activities
11. In the history of Great Britain, only one woman has served as prime minister. It was Margaret Thatcher.
12. Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner succeeded her husband in this post.
13. Raisa Gorbacheva was the first among the wives of the leaders of the CPSU and the USSR to openly help her husband and participate in protocol events.
14. There are many women human rights defenders. They are believed to be more sensitive to injustice and deception on the part of those in power.
15. Among those who came to Red Square to protest against the introduction of troops into Prague (1968) were dissidents-women.
16. Natalya Solzhenitsyna supported her famous husband during all the days of exile, and later, upon returning to her homeland, gave birth to three sons to Alexander Isaevich. Now he is organizing a huge archive of the writer, preparing literary works for study at school.
17. Lyudmila Alekseeva, a human rights activist, has tremendous authority among all sectors of society, regardless of gender or social affiliation.
18. The journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya is known all over the world. Only recently was the investigation completed and the trial in this high-profile case passed. The customer was still not found, the executors were tried.
19. Condoleezza Rice knows geography so well, including economic, that George W. Bush did not do without consulting her on any issue related to the global economy, and not only.
Economy
20. Women crowd out men in all spheres. In Russia, women have their own sea captains, cosmonauts, generals, drivers of heavy vehicles and even blacksmiths.
21. At the helm of ministries and departments, at the head of large corporations are still single representatives of the weak half of humanity.
22. It is much more difficult for women, especially of childbearing age, to fill vacancies than for men of the same age.
23. But in the pre-retirement age, the situation is leveled: it is difficult to get a job for both.
24. Women earn about 20% less for the same amount of work performed than men. If you agree to this alignment.
25. The average salary of a female worker in the country is slightly more than half the salary of a male employee, or to be more precise, it is 65 percent of a male salary.
The science
26. The famous Yakut diamonds were found by the Leningrad geologist Larisa Popugaeva. In Yakutia, she is well remembered and respected. One of the largest diamonds later received the name of the discoverer of the deposit, Larisa Popugaeva.
27. The first woman-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova admitted many years later that the flight took place in emergency conditions and was very different from the planned one. Almost by a miracle, our "swallow" managed to return back to Earth. The details were classified at the request of Sergei Korolev himself. Tereshkova kept her word and never told anyone about it.
Technics
28. Women are much more likely than men to drop out of driving school with the words: "This is not mine."
29. Of all the maneuvers that a vehicle driver must do well, women are the hardest to park and change lanes.
30. The overwhelming majority of women will prefer not independent study of instructions for a household technical device, but a retelling of a competent person.
31. Very rarely women-pedestrians and passengers distinguish one car brand from another, preferring to use “colors” for recognition. Moreover, the situation on this issue is being rectified very slowly.
32. It is difficult for women to forgive the “piles of iron” for the fact that they take a man away from their beautiful legal owners for a long time.
Medicine
33. Ladies who abuse high-grade drinks, about two times faster than men, come to alcoholism.
34. Women in Russia live on average 12 years longer than men.
35. Hemoglobin is the most important component in the blood, it is responsible for the delivery of oxygen to organs. The normal hemoglobin level in women is about 10 units lower than in men.
36. Alopecia - hair loss up to baldness - women practically do not suffer.
37. They also never get hemophilia, although they can pass the corresponding gene to their offspring. Non-clotting occurs only in men.
Family
38. For a beauty, by all accounts, it is much more difficult to get married. Men latently feel: most likely, do not expect a quiet life in marriage. The beloved will alternately be tempted by hosts of rich admirers.
39. Wives are much more likely than husbands to file for divorce, but in the future they often regret this step and have a hard time getting married again.
40. The main reasons that led to divorce, which are called by women: adultery and alcoholism of the partner.
41. Women are three times less likely than divorced men to remarry.
42. After the age of 70, there is only one “cavalier” for every three women.
43. Even arguing for the sake of the common-law husband about the “uselessness of the stamp in the passport,” a potential bride in her heart dreams of a real white dress and a luxurious wedding. She drew this picture in detail, while still a girl, and if nothing like this happens in her life, she will feel cheated. Men, give a fairy tale!
44. Television presenter Katie Couric was the first female American television personality to single-handedly run the evening news and has proven herself to be a high-profile journalist and interviewer. In the summer of 2014, she got engaged and married a successful financier and investor with a multimillion dollar fortune. The groom is 7 years younger than the 57-year-old bride.
45. In Russia, a similar story with a TV presenter, and part-time director and producer, happened several years ago. Avdotya Smirnova became the wife of a very wealthy man Anatoly Chubais.
46. Families of the North Caucasian peoples, with the exception of Dagestan, who have married their grown daughter, never communicate with their daughter's new family and are not even invited to a wedding.
47. In Russia, a mother-in-law is a character of folklore, an “active member” of the newlywed family. The son-in-law is simply forced to build relationships with two women at once, who often oppose him with a united front. And this is a double load.
48. For the sake of the beautiful Wallis Simpson and the opportunity to create a family with her, the English king Edward YIII abdicated the throne.
49. Prince Charles called Camilla Parker Bowles the love of his life and waited for her to agree to marriage for decades.
50. Natalya Andreichenko managed to bring the "impenetrable" bachelor, actor Maximilian Schell to the registry office, the couple had a daughter. True, the family subsequently broke up.
51. Women keep the memory of their first love all their lives, although, as a rule, there is no continuation of this story.
Psychology
52. If you invite the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity to name the 5 most important concepts, almost all respondents will include love in this list.
53. Women are much more likely to seek help from occult services, psychics, fortune-tellers, etc. Moreover, the older the lady, the more chances she has to fall into the network of "magicians".
54. Everybody loves to receive letters, and women, and there are many of them, besides, they love to write them.
55. Girls are very categorical, representatives of the stronger sex of the same age know how to better build relationships in society.
56. Women often resort to tears as a final and impactful argument. Men never do that.
57. An elderly lady, looking at photographs of her youth, notices that before she was young and beautiful, but now she is only beautiful.
58. Female eyes recognize shades better. What is simply "blue" or "green" for a man, a woman can describe in two dozen words.
59. It's hard to imagine that a guy went to study at a textile or pedagogical institute with the sole purpose of finding his betrothed there. But young sexy creatures in mini-skirts apply to the university for the "black" or "non-ferrous metallurgy", clearly understanding what they want.
60. Women are often driven by emotions, not reason. Subsequently, the majority admits that they were guided by impulses, and not common sense.
61. Vocabulary is growing at a much faster rate for girls than for boys, and this imbalance only increases over the years. The desire to talk, discuss problems further polishes the speech. In the film "Kalina Krasnaya" one of the heroes responds to the lengthy monologues of his other half with the universal "So what?", Which brings her to hysterics.
62. The people have an expression "talkative gossips", but "chatting godfathers" - no.
63. Flowers remain the best gift for many decades for mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and loved ones. This is also from there, from childhood: I will become a princess, and the prince on a white horse will bring me a luxurious bouquet.
64. Women are more resilient than men when it comes to everyday life, they can do several things at once and with high quality.
65. Women are sentimental: they can burst into tears at the sight of a dog that has hurt its paw. “My tears are close,” the sensitive persons explain the fact of mini-hysteria. And they cannot calm down for a long time.
66. The same story with television series. The scriptwriters know the psychology of TV viewers and hit the pain points. Men are perplexed: after all, everything is fictional there. Why worry? In response, they may hear something like the following: “You have no idea how difficult it is for the heroine. She was fired from her job, her beloved was in a coma, and the child was stolen. "
67. Women are very fond of glossy magazines because of the illusory opportunity to touch the bohemian and glamorous life.
68. Men have never understood how their faithful can spend so much money and time building a hairstyle that will last until midnight at the most.
69. There is an expression: "a woman's hand is felt" when an impeccable order and appearance is maintained in the house or in clothes. Well, what if a "man's hand" walked around the house? Popular wisdom is silent.
70. The concept of "female friendship" exists, but only until the moment when a man appears on the horizon who will appeal to both "friends".
Literature
71. Nobel laureate in the field of literature Doris Lessing in an artistic form described the existence of humanity, consisting entirely of women, and suggested how it could reproduce itself. The book "Cleft" tells about this.
72. The plot, when the main heroine leaves her prosperous husband and throws herself headlong into a maelstrom of new, bright love, is often used in world literature (Anna Karenina, Woman, Madame Bovary). Tragic outcomes of such stories are not uncommon in real life.
73. The books with the largest circulation in Russia belong to the pen of the "detective" writers.
74. According to samurai laws, love for a woman does not exist, there is only devotion (love) to the master. Japanese writer Takeo Arishima brought out in his beautiful novel "Woman", written almost 100 years ago, the image of a rebel, rebelling against the medieval way of life, defending the right to love. But Yoko's society does not understand and ruins.
75. Prose writer Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) admits that all his works are written for women, although there are no love ones among them. According to the Nobel laureate, novels are read mainly by women, but there are very few men among fans of fiction. This relationship is maintained even more clearly in poetry.
76. The saying “Let us praise the woman-mother, whose love knows no barriers, whose breast has fed the whole world” belongs to the writer A.M. Gorky. He is the author of a purely propaganda work "Mother", where practically nothing is said about raising children.
77. The talented Svetlana Aleksievich was one of the first to talk about the actual situation of the Soviet troops in Afghanistan, about the unrighteousness of that war, about the terrible losses, about the rejection of the locals, about zinc coffins. For this, a court was brought against the writer, who had fulfilled her duty, where, as prosecutors, they brought ... the parents of the dead and mutilated beardless soldiers: "You have taken away the meaning of life from them."
78. Even finely feeling natures are capable of rash actions, which cannot be explained. Marina Tsvetaeva left two daughters in the Kuntsevo orphanage. Subsequently, she took one of them (the older one). The baby, who was left in the orphanage without a mother during the difficult years of hunger, died. The eldest, Ariadne, lived a long life, she had no children.
Art
79. Janina Zheimo was 37 years old when she performed her famous role as 16-year-old Cinderella. At the same time, the daughter of Yanina herself was just 16 years old during the filming period.
80. Nadezhda Rumyantseva brilliantly played the role of a young graduate of a culinary vocational school, although by the time of filming in the film "Girls" she was in her 40s.
81. It is believed that a woman has better developed imaginative thinking. Nevertheless, all the masterpieces of world painting, sculpture and architecture are created by men.
82. Lyudmila Zykina, who spoke in the hospital to the soldiers who passed through the "hot spots", saw a patient without arms and legs, could not stand it and burst into tears. The young man reassured her: “Don't cry, why? Everything will be fine".
83. Lyudmila Zykina considered important the commandment of her mother: before starting a conversation with a person, offer him tea, feed him.
84. Galina Vishnevskaya had talents in various fields. She was not only the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater and an excellent vocal teacher. Her literary talent manifested itself in an excellently written autobiographical book "Galina".
85. Anna Golubkina, a Russian sculptor, was distinguished by her honesty, sincerity and straightforwardness. At the first meeting with a person about whom there was not a very good fame, she, without thinking for a second, suggested: "Let's not get acquainted."
86. Marina Ladynina, Elina Bystritskaya, Olga Aroseva, Tamara Makarova, Galina Ulanova, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Natalya Gundareva, Vera Vasilieva, Lydia Smirnova, Lyubov Orlova, Faina Ranevskaya, Maya Plisetskaya, Lyudmila Chursina, Tatiadana Doronina Zhanna Bolotova, Inna Ulyanova, Liya Akhedzhakova, Tatiana Lioznova, Tamara Semina, Ekaterina Maksimova, Tatiana Shmyga, Irina Rozanova, Alexandra Marinina, Irina Pechernikova, Tatiana Golikova, Rimma Markova, Maya Kristalinskaya, Lyubov Sliska, Angelina Vakovk, Elena Tsyplale , Aziza, Anastasia Voznesenskaya, Klara Rumyanova, Bella Akhmadullina, Ksenia Strizh, Larisa Rubalskaya. Maria Biesu, Elena Koreneva preferred to motherhood to serve art, literature, journalism, politics.
Sport
87.Girls are not averse to playing sports, but not extreme ones. The importance of the mission of procreation is programmed deep in the mind. You can't risk your life thoughtlessly. Unborn children will not forgive.
88. A woman, unlike a man, first of all sees in sports not competition, but beauty and grace. Therefore, among the beautiful half of humanity there are so many fans of figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming and so few fans of wrestling and boxing.
89. The Polgar sisters accepted the challenge of the male chess community and began to participate with men on equal terms in chess competitions. At the same time, we have achieved outstanding results.
90. Maya Usova, renowned figure skater and Olympic medalist (paired with Alexander Zhulin) admitted that the decision to give up motherhood in favor of training and competition was a mistake she greatly regrets.
91. After the enchanting, “golden” performance of the gymnast Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympic Games, and then demonstration performances in the USSR and abroad, gymnasiums and sports schools bearing her name were opened everywhere. But not here, but in America.
92. Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, possessing phenomenal flexibility and masterly owning her own body and gymnastic objects, raised interest in rhythmic gymnastics to unprecedented heights not only in our country, but also in the world.
93. The Alina Kabaeva Foundation helps develop children's sports in Russia and the CIS countries, holds charity events, and recently even allocated money to buy a house for a large family from Siberia.
Fashion
94. No woman admits that she has no taste.
95. Cherishing your reputation is the norm. But, unlike men, women are too upset if others deny them the ability to dress well.
96. Love for outfits, especially spectacular - all from the same place, from the fairy tale of princesses.
97. A real, stylish woman understands that 70% of the success of her appearance depends on the right shoes.
98. Russian women are very supportive of decorative cosmetics, in contrast to the representatives of the West, who admit it is mainly curative.
99. Television viewers closely monitor the dress of the presenters, actresses, and royalty. There will be practically no criticism: everything seen is perceived as an urgent guide to action.
100. Purchased by Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, the dress (purple circles and stains on a white background) instantly swept away similar designs from the shelves of all branches of fashion stores in London.
101. The mood will be spoiled and will not rise if the lady invited to the banquet notices another guest in the same or similar attire. This is the worst, irreparable, terrible thing that can happen at a party.
102. The expression “style icon” is often won by those who are not worthy to wear this title. But fashion is not only for the length of the skirt and for the style of dress, fashion is also for media faces, for names.
103. A shopaholic patient will never admit this fact. She has a deadly argument for all such accusations: "I'm a woman!"
