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Father School: S tep by Stepconcept ‘reproductive health’ implies a possibility for everyone to enjoy proper and safe sexual life, have a family andright to a free choice whether to have children, when and how many.Reproductive Work means household work (often performed by women), which is not recompensed and notincluded into gross domestic product. This refers to sustaining the vital activity of social and family structures onwhich productive labor depends. This concept can also be defined by the expressions ‘reproductive labor’ or ‘socialreproduction’.Sexual harassment: this term implies unwelcome sexual interest infringing personal security. This includesdemanding sexual services, hostile or humiliating utterances or touches. This is a form of discrimination and abuse ofoffice.Socialization means that individuals learn to accept and perform functions and roles prescribed by the society. Inthe process of socialization, men and women learn to perform different social roles from birth. The formation ofdifferent roles and expectations for men and women is the main distinctive feature of gender socialization in mostsocieties.The glass ceiling refers to obstacles which do not allow women to occupy high posts both in private and publicinstitutions. Thus, this term pertains to political, official, legal, social and economic areas. The word ‘glass’ is usedhere as these obstacles are practically invisible and are usually connected with maintaining the prevalent structure inan institution as opposed to an open and transparent system of career advancement opportunities for women andmen.Engendering: shows how differently events influence individuals depending on their sex as well as how individuals’sex influence certain events. Engendering also means acknowledging the fact that labor differentiation on thegrounds of sex and relevant norms, values and opinions on prescriptive femininity and masculinity, are determinedby the distribution of authoritative relations between sexes. Existing distribution makes women's voices less audible,diminishes the significance of their contribution into the society’s cultural and social life, restricts their access toresources and control over them. Authoritative relations between sexes differ depending on historical and religiouscontext. Besides, they are influenced by other social relations between classes, castes, ethnical groups or races insidea society.37