MOSCOW CENTER FOR GENDER STUDIES Moscow The Moscow Center for Gender Studies (MCGS) was registered by the Government of Moscow in April 1, 1994. Its registration number is 1515-1.

Address: 32 Nakhimovsky Prosp., Moscow, 117218, Russia.
Contacts persons: Olga Voronina, Tatiana Klimenkova - co-directors;
tel./fax: 7 (095) 125-64-19, 129-10-01, 243-69-84;
e-mail: mcgs@glasnet.ru , genderexpert@glasnet.ru, summerschool@glasnet.ru

The Moscow Center for Gender Studies (MCGS) is a non-governmental, non-profit research institution with a feminist orientation.

The Center was founded in April 1990 as a part of the Institute for Socio-Economic Population Problems (ISEPP). In April 1994 Center was registered as the Moscow Center for Gender Studies.

MCGS mission is seen by its members:

• incorporating a gender approach into academia and social life;
• withstanding sexism in the humanities, mass consciousness and social policies under the present conditions, with the growing tendencies to consider women through traditional stereotypes;
• contributing to the rise of civil society in Russia, by playing part in the independent women's movement and creating grounds for women's real participation in the policy-making process;

What is being done to implement this mission?

• Various MCGS activities include research and expertise on gender-related issues; educational and training seminars;
• contacts with the official institutions and with the mass media;
• building up of data-base on women;
• cooperation with other women's organizations in Russia, in NIS and in the West.

MCGS spheres of investigation:

• strategy for equal rights and opportunities for women and men;
• gender approach to the power issue;
• women's leadership in the Russian context;
• women in the new socio- political movements;
• feminization of poverty and unemployment;
• women in the market economy;
• family in gender context;
• reproductive rights of women and men.

Tatiana Klimenkova