Russian women - 9 main differences 

What impression does a Russian woman make on foreigners? Why is child-rearing so different in Russia and in the West? And why are Russian women really respected all over the world?

We asked the successful Australian singer Perukua, known all over the world as "The Voice of Mother Earth" and "The Voice of the Innermost Feminine", to tell us about it. Born and raised in a musical family, she graduated from the Academy of Arts in Australia as a jazz vocalist, built a career as a singer in Sydney, and then began to create a very different music, performing concerts all over the world. In addition, the singer is the author of such popular techniques as Vocal Yoga and Emotional Cleansing. Perukua admits that she "has a very warm connection with Russian people" (first, she has a Russian husband; second, she often performs in Russia).

So what is the peculiarity of Russian women, in the opinion of the Australian singer?

1. Feminism and attitudes towards women

While there is a growing feminist movement in the West, in Russia "femininity" - femininity is actively cultivated. The very idea of a sensual living woman who lives in harmony with her nature was somehow forgotten in the years of global industrialization and digitalization, but now this vector is returning.

This is because the world is developing cyclically. We have already lived in an era when a woman was considered equal to a goddess, then came the time of men, now the cycle is returning again, in which women will play a key role in the development of society. The modern world, built according to male canons, has collapsed completely in the main. We have made considerable technical progress, but we have failed badly in terms of love. The modern, rigid, logical world is drying up for lack of love. And the guardians of love on the planet are women. And it is their role in this phase of the world's development to bring this quality back to the planet.

2. Education

In Soviet times women and men were in a similar position. Wages were determined by qualifications and not by connections or privileges. There was no such stage in the West. Therefore, women in Russia are markedly more highly educated than in the West. Many women in Russia today are successful businesswomen. They are independent, dynamic and intelligent. In the West, the percentage of such women is much lower.

3. Motherhood

The value of a Russian woman in the role of mother and wife is also extremely high. Incomparably higher than abroad. This is important to see in today's world! This, however, has a flip side: when a man puts his woman in the role of mother, he sort of subconsciously takes her out of the role of "mistress". And then he starts looking for this "mistress" on the side, having affairs.

4. Self-Actualization

For Russian women, the concept of "success" is inextricably linked to having a man, children, and a family (which is not usually characteristic of modern Western women). These values in Russia are handed down from mother's milk. On the one hand, this is incredibly beautiful, because this is how the world works. This world is the harmonious union of a woman and a man from which all the rest appears: children, creative projects, business ideas. But in the realities of the modern world, everything is not so smooth. Often men take advantage of this "worship" by women as if they were children.

5. Upbringing of children

Boys are particularly hard hit, mothers in Russia often pay too much attention to them and start to patronize them. This comes from the fact that when a woman is entering the role of mother, she leaves the role of "mistress" in the eyes of her husband, who has a mistress. At this point, the boy takes the place of the man in the eyes of the woman, and she begins to fill her life with him. Such boys often grow up to be "mama's boys" rather than self-sufficient men.

6. Abuse

Many women in Russia are convinced that all men are the same, and there is no one better anyway, so it is better to be patient... In Russia there is an expression "beating means loving". This patience and all acceptance, of course, is amazing.

In the West, women can also tolerate. I myself spent part of my childhood in the abusive field. My mother's second husband was a wealthy man, a respected doctor, but also apparently some form of psychopath. After a year of living together, when everything was wonderful, our family was plunged into a world of fear and terror. At one point my stepfather was not just violent, but rather abusive and began beating my mother. That period didn't last for years... After a while, my mother worked up the courage and filed for divorce. Even though I was a 12-year-old girl, I became a support for my mother. We lived together for the hardest year, I went with her to lawyers' offices, courts, and so on. In the end my mom won the court, got what she wanted, including a ban on him coming within 100 meters of us. So, don't think that this doesn't exist in the West. But my experience with women says that in general, the cup of patience of Western women overflows faster and they break up with abusers.

7. Family ties and traditions

Family ties are much more valued in Russia than in the West. Abroad, when parents visit their children it is more of a formality visit at Christmas and other family holidays.

8. Sex

A lot of Russian women's problems stem from past negative sexual experiences. Rape, abusive, difficult sexual experiences in which women consented to sex more out of service to their man than out of love. But it is worth saying that women's problems sexually are the same everywhere. They are expressed in different ways, but the core of them is familiarity.

When we meet, we feel the novelty, the excitement, the brightness of the moment. Gradually couples slip into the routine of life, into predictability, and there is a sense of familiarity. Nothing kills a relationship more likely than this familiarity. It often leads to dishonesty, which then turns into infidelity. After all, when we don't get from our partner what we went into a relationship for: he - female energy, she - male energy... partners start looking for it on the side or go into a state of hibernation before in front of the TV, and now - in front of the phone screen. Either way, both kill love, and without love there can be no harmonious relationship. When love goes away, it is replaced by problems, in sex it is a boring disregard for the interests of the girl-partner, or surrendering to him simply as a performance of "duty" rather than by desire... In life it is scandals or ignoring each other. The forms are different, but the reason is most often the same.

9. Self-care

Russian women noticeably spend more time taking care of themselves. There are many women who develop natural, environmentally friendly care products and open their own beauty salons. Undoubtedly, this arouses great respect.