EDN: https://elibrary.ru/mwzaij
DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2025.4.11
The article examines the characteristics of the portrayal of women’s participation in the country’s scientific life during the political “Thaw” and the images of Russian
women scientists in films of the 1950—1960s. The author’s goal is to reveal the dynamics in the changing images of women associated with work in science in the pre-war decades and the early years after the Great Patriotic War, as well as images of social hopes and optimism regarding the prospects of Russian science. The author confirms the hypothesis that despite the change in ideological orientation and the new political course in the country, as well as the active implementation of a huge state scientific project, women’s contribution to science remained underestimated (both in reality and in the films made during those years). The social role of women (domestic servants by vocation) was reflected in almost all films that depicted life in science and the life of science in one way or another.