Dashkovskaya E. Women Legal Statuse in Gender Equality Aspect: General Theoretical Analysis.

The dissertation focuses on research of the principle of equality of men and women. The thesis is devoted to research the principle of non-discrimination based on sex. The author completed deep analyses of different philosophic and theoretical approaches to the question of women legal statuse, beginning from the ancient times and including modern concepts. The legal nature of gender equality principle are given. Its correlation and codependence and the sphere of due values are revealed. The author emphasizes social, historical, political and cultural backgrounds of the gender equality theory. The legal statuse of women in a number social spheres are viewed simultaneously through their integrity and specifics. Equality of the rights of women and men is ensured by providing women with opportunities equal to those of men in public, political, and cultural activity, in obtaining education and professional training, in work and its remuneration; by special measures for the protection of work and health of women; by establishing pension privileges, by creating conditions that allow women to combine work and motherhood; by legal protection, material and moral support of motherhood and childhood, including providing of paid leaves and other privileges to pregnant women and mothers. The notions of legal equality, principle of equality and discrimination their constituent characteristics are presented. The role of national, regional and international mechanisms in development of women legal statuse is shown. The necessity to have a law in place that would provide a mechanism for gender equality, have as goal parity status of men and women in all sectors of society life, ensure equal rights and possibilities for men and women, and eliminate discrimination on the grounds of sex was not evident to all then and is not evident now, after the came in effect.