ФЕМІНІСТИЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ ОСОБЛИВОСТЕЙ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ПОЛІТИЧНИХ ІНСТИТУТІВ: ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ РОЛІ ЖІНОК ПОЛІТИЦІ ТА В ІНСТИТУЦІЯХ ВЛАДИ

Abstract

The article substantiates that the issue of gender equality has always been relevant for the world, it concerns all spheres of human life. But the political sphere acquires special importance — how gender equality develops in it, what it imagines, what tasks and goals it sets before itself, what challenges it faces. According to international standards, men and women have equal rights to full participation in all aspects of the political process. However, in practice, it is much more difficult for women to fully enjoy these rights and the war in Ukraine poses new important challenges related to the implementation of both active and passive suffrage. The purpose of the article is to study the role of women in the modern political process and the functioning of power institutions based on the application of a gender approach to the analysis of political institutions. As a result of the research, it is substantiated that the political discourse about the place of individual identities among institutionalized practices of social and political interaction can transform institutional framework of the political system and to determine the status of the state as a key institution in the political system of the society and an actor in international politics. Ensuring gender equality for the active participation in various political institutions (from NGOs to political parties and state authorities) is one of the typical types of evidence of the political system democratization. The growing number of empirical investigations in Ukraine and the world contributed to the formation of a separate direction of scientific research — feminist institutionalism, which develops within the framework of the worldview and methodological guidelines of the new institutionalism of political science.