Formation and development stages of gender education in a higher school of the post-soviet countries

Abstract

The article deals with the history of the emergence and evolution of gender education in a higher school of the post-Soviet countries. The scholars’ approaches to the classification of periods of gender education development in the post-Soviet area are analyzed. The general boundaries of the evolution of gender education in the post-Soviet higher school, which is almost thirty years old (beginning of the 1990s – to the present day), have been established. There are three decades of gender education development in a higher school of the post-Soviet area and each decade coincides with a certain stage and is determined by the solution of specific tasks: the first decade (1991–2000) – the stage of gender education formation and institutionalization in the system of higher education, which is characterized by the creation of organizational structures for gender studies at universities; the second decade (2001–2010) is a period of stimulation of gender initiatives in the science and education of the post-Soviet countries, when the legitimacy of gender issues in the academic environment takes place and gender paradigm formation in education is carried out; the third decade (2011 – and to this day) – the stage of integrating gender education into the post-Soviet higher education system, which has not become systematic and mostly occurs in spontaneously inertial mode. The general tendency is found out. It is about the likelines of features of gender education formation in a higher school of the post-Soviet countries and uneven dynamic of its development