Word: biryukova
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexandra Biryukova, 59. A consumer-affairs specialist on the Central Committee, she was named a nonvoting Politburo member, the first woman to hold such a post in 27 years. Promoted...
Alexandra P. Biryukova, the highest-ranking woman in the Soviet hierarchy, gained an alternate, or non-voting, Politburo spot, as did Anatoly I. Lukyanov and Interior Minister Alexander. V. Vlasov, the nation's top policeman...
...Biryukova, who was responsible for the consumer sector, becomes the first woman named to the Politburo since Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva was a full voting member from 1957 to 1961 under Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...higher the posts, the more they are male dominated. Top openings are regularly reserved for active members of the Communist Party, an avocation that requires more time than most women can spare. Even within the party, women rarely rise far. In 1986 Alexandra Biryukova became the first woman in 25 years to be elevated to the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Concedes Pokhova: "We have too few women at the decision-making level...
ALEXANDRA BIRYUKOVA, 57, a trade-union official, was Gorbachev's surprise appointment to the Secretariat. A former textile worker, Biryukova has been a Central Committee member for the past decade. Western diplomats viewed her selection as a gesture to Soviet women, who constitute more than half of the population and the work force...