The author reveals the impact of public policy on changing gender relations in a Siberian peasant family in the 1920s. Deliberate policy of the state in regard to the family and the «status of women», the establishment of special bodies – Women's departments , the propaganda in the media and in the «field» were the key factors of “fast” modernization processes in all spheres of family relations of the Russian / Soviet society. In Soviet society such problems were referred to as “women's issues” and reproduced in special print media, such as “Komunistka”(“Communist girl”), and later “Rabotnitsa” (“Working woman”) and”Krestyanka” (“Peasant woman”), “Krasnaya Sibiryachka” (“Red Siberian woman”), Zhensky Zhurnal” (“Women's Magazine”), etc. It is interesting that among other problems on the way of solving “the women's issues” there were male leaders, members of the Communist party, who were reported to perceived the activity of “women's departments” with a certain degree of irony. This work examines the changing role and responsibilities of a Siberian peasant woman in the south of Western Siberia in the first decade of the Soviet government.