Translated from French /Common. Red. and entry. st. C. G. Aivazova, Comment . M. In. Arista . Two volumes of the book "The Second Sex" by the French writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - "a born philosopher", according to her husband J. -P. Sartre is still considered the most complete historical and philosophical study of the whole complex of problems associated with women. What is the "female destiny" , what is behind the concept of "natural purpose of sex" , How and why a woman’s position in this world is different from that of a man Is it possible for a woman to become a full-fledged person ,? and if yes, Under what circumstances , What are the circumstances that limit a woman's freedom and how to overcome them? Simone de Beauvoir addresses in her narrative myths and legends about the "secret of the sex", about the "mystery of the female soul", created, according to her, by men. Relying on the highest examples of world literature, she speaks again and again about the monstrous injustice of ordinary women’s fate, about traditional neglect of the weaker sex and the humiliating everyday discrimination associated with it. The famous book of Simone de Beauvoir was revered by more than one generation of women in the West as the new Bible. They sought and found answers to their deepest questions. Such a book cannot but find a response in our country of nascent democracy.