The article considers resources of women's associations social activities, definition of the main problem areas of gender disparities in economy, politics and law. Author‟s casestudy is based upon the experience of All-Russian Public Movement «Social Democratic Union of Women of Russia» and considers the citizen's initiative to install monument in Moscow «Women — the defender of the Motherland» for the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.read in PDF>>>