Gender Features of Administrative Building of a Russian University

Abstract

The aim of this research article is the detection of university administrative potential gender peculiarities on the basis of the analysis of women - executives position in the intra - university management system, defining trends and practical recommendations on its development. The research covers higher education institutions of the Russian Federation. The objects of the research are the women taking executive positions at Russian universities. The research demonstrates that higher education has a tendency towards vertical influence of gender characteristics. Just like state authorities, business and manufacture, universities give les influence to women as compared to men. Yet there is a tendency towards growing number of women - executives in higher education. For the last fifteen years there has been a growth of the number of women at all levels of intra - university executive positions: department deans - 18 %, vice - rectors and heads of chairs - 15 %, rectors - 8 %, which suggests an activation of women’s involvement into the university management process. It has been found out that a necessary prerequisite for enhancing women’s role in in intra-university managerial activity is the formation of managerial potential which acts as a system phenomenon and is an integrated performance criteria of managerial skills implementation depending on accumulated managerial resources (qualities and features), degree of existing managerial abilities actualization (motives and skills) and presence of managerial reserves creating prerequisites for further implementation in future. Achieving gender equality in higher education management requires academic support and defines the necessity and perspective of conducting special gender research. Novelty and originality of this article is in a clearly pronounced gender aspect of research in the field of developing Russian university managerial potential. The authors analyze women’s position in the system of intra - university management. Peculiar feature of this research is that it offers and explains measures aimed at effective formation, implementation and development of managerial potential of women - executives at higher educational institutions.