ІСТОРИЧНІ ПЕРЕДУМОВИ СТАНОВЛЕННЯ ТУНІСЬКОЇ ЕЛІТИ В КОНТЕКСТІ ГЕНДЕРНИХ ПЕРЕТВОРЕНЬ

The author attempts to determine formation of the Tunisian elite. Based on history, the author clarifies to the situation of women in Tunisian society, the ruling eity. He insists that the position of women is a topic discussion first president Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia. The first president emphasized that the equality of women with men is his personal merit. Author are aktsentiruting attention to differences of opinion among the ruling elites. It defines the essence of the Tunisian intellectual’s gender policy in the country; the priority task is to develop its own gender strategy. The author insists that the gender issue is one of the main issues in the Arab world. The main pressure lever and control in this matter is the political elite. Events 2010-2011 in Tunisia have shown that the transformation in the Arab world can not be ignored, and they should become a priority in research contemporary scholars