For the first time the program of in vitro fertilization (IVF) was successfully performed in England in 1978, when the first baby from the test tube appeared - Louise Brown. Since then, more than two million such children have been born in the world. The best achievements of modern women show what is based on women's wisdom and well-being.
If the uterus is absent (from birth or as a result of surgery), or if a woman is contraindicated in pregnancy, or if she simply does not want to wear out the months, she can resort to the services of a surrogate mother. The embryo obtained with the help of the same IVF is placed in the womb of a woman who agrees to endure the child and immediately after giving birth to his biological parents. For the first time it happened in the USA in 1986. Often, relatives replace mothers (including mothers and mothers who carry their own grandchildren). In most civilized countries, surrogate motherhood is either banned altogether, or allowed only on a non-commercial basis. For example, the British Carol Horlock, who took out nine other people's children, did this solely for the pleasure of being pregnant. But you rarely see such an enthusiast, and the modern woman is proud of the best achievements so far.
In a number of countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, some states of America, surrogate motherhood is legalized on a commercial basis (the price fluctuates between 5 and 10 thousand dollars).
In the same way, a couple of lesbians can give birth to a "common" baby: one takes an egg, the other bears. Sperm, of course, donor. From the legal point of view, this is a surrogate motherhood, so a woman who has a baby, before the procedure, has to write a waiver of maternity rights. Sometimes there are legal incidents (for example, recently in the United States two "parents" were tried because of their seven-year-old child.) The court found the document from the clinic, essentially formal, sufficient to deny the second mother the right to custody). But despite medical, ethical and other problems, IVF and surrogate pregnancy made maternity possible for those women who could only hope for a miracle before.
Change sex
It is unlikely that advanced oddballs, who wore men's pantaloons, short hair and smoked a pipe, would agree to change the sex surgically - they had enough of a masquerade. But in the human population there have always been people born in a foreign body. Now they are called transsexuals. According to American statistics, for three men who are aware of themselves as women, there is one woman who realizes herself as a man. Until 1960, transsexuals had virtually no chance of finding the "right" body, they were considered mentally ill and tried to treat with electric shock. Subsequently, several universities in the United States began serious research on gender identity, and as a result, restrictions on sex change were abolished. Now in most civilized countries, this procedure is regulated by legislation and includes several stages: hormonal therapy, surgery, change of name and documents (the latter, by the way, is not permitted everywhere). In Ukraine, there is no corresponding law, but there are no special problems: the sex in the passport can be changed after the operation, based on the results of the medical examination. Doctors tell amazing stories from their practice - for example, about a woman who considered herself a man named Dima and dreamed of marrying her lover. The couple wanted to have children, but the bride had medical problems. Then Dima decided to postpone the final transformation and first took out the child, who then became a father.
Reshape appearance to taste
Plastic surgery has a long history, but until the middle of the XX century they were performed only when necessary: after wounds, burns, with various deformities. Only the richest and most famous actresses decided to lie under the surgeon's knife to delay the old age (for example, Lyubov Orlova was a fan of plastic). The operation was expensive, and the results were unpredictable due to imperfect methods. But in the late 50's - early 60's in the development of American plastic surgery there was a jump, the ratio of "price-quality" has rapidly improved, and soon the redrawing of the exterior was joined by the middle class. Perhaps the main milestone should be considered the appearance of silicone implants in 1962. Since then, the zero-sized breast has ceased to be the final verdict for a girl dreaming to conquer Hollywood. In some powers there was a real insanity on plastic. For example, in Venezuela, which regularly delivers winners of Miss World and Miss Universe contests, parents from well-to-do families receive generous lustrous breasts and buttocks for adulthood. To straighten your nose is like going to a solarium. With the same enthusiasm, Korean women and Chinese women massively redo their eyes and noses to look like europeans. Appearance has ceased to be God's gift (or punishment), now it is only a set of initial data, which you can dispose of at your own discretion.
Earn a billion
Up to a certain point, a woman could become a holder of capital with nine zeros only thanks to her inheritance. In a serious business, the weaker sex was not allowed: first - due to a lack of education (which again was difficult to obtain), then - because of the unspoken "glass ceiling". The first breach in the men's defense managed to break through in the middle of last century cosmetic queens: Mary Kay and Este Lauder. By the time of the death of the latter, in 2004, the cost of her perfume empire had reached five billion dollars.
Now the ladies , who have earned their capitals with their own mind, are closing the twenty richest women in the world according to Forbes. We are quite happy with the life of the owner - the founder of large clothing companies Rosalia Mera (Inditex, which owns the brand Zara) and Juliana Benetton. Both of them have 2.9 billion. "The most successful woman in the corporate world of the United States" - Margaret Whitman, who was the CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008 - earned 1.6 billion thanks to her business sense. The names of two billionaires are known to the whole world: TV presenter Oprah Winfrey and Joanne Rowling, whose biography surprisingly resembles the plot of "Cinderella", with Harry Potter as a prince.
Judge a billion from her husband
At the beginning of the last century, a woman neither in the US, nor in Europe, nor in Russia had any rights to her husband's property, and even the procedure of divorce became a painful test. In the UK, for example, one of the spouses acted as a "defendant", that is, recognized treason. If the treason actually was not, the party that filed for divorce, had to invent it and publicly prove before the court. Now, in most civilized countries, a woman has the right to half of the property that she has acquired in marriage (unless otherwise stipulated in the marriage contract). In the Soviet Union, "half of the jointly acquired property" usually meant one or one and a half rooms in a cooperative apartment or half of "Moskvich". But in modern Russia, the account is quite different. An example of the best achievements of modern women is the divorce of four Abramovichs in 2007. At first, there were rumors that Irina Abramovich, who had given birth to the wife of five children, would receive half his fortune, that is, about five billion dollars. In this case, it would be the most expensive divorce in history. However, in fact, the compensation amounted to "only" 300 million dollars (more precisely, 150 million pounds). That, you will agree, is also not bad, considering that Irina, having said goodbye for the sake of marriage with the work of the stewardess, has always been a housewife.
American housewives have the best achievements of modern women, they win more substantial sums from their husbands. The record belongs to Phyllis Redstone - after learning about the betrayal, she filed for divorce and in 2002 she sued her husband, Sumner Redstone's media manat, 1.8 billion dollars. The same story happened with the marriage of Rupert Murdoch. His second wife Anna Torv, having learned about her husband's novel with a young employee Wendi Deng, began a divorce and eventually received about 1.5 billion.