Social and psychological dimensions of gender deprivation in the field of marriage and family

Abstract


 
 
 The article deals with the factors of the family environment that have a depriving effect on the participants of gender relations in the systems "husband-wife", "parents-children" and hinder the development of parity relations in private life. Gender relations in the field of marriage and family are considered as real practices and models of intersex interaction, behavior, values and social norms that determine the organization of family life and the culture of family relations. The definition of "gender deprivation in marriage and family" as deprivation faced by women and men in the performance of marital and parental roles due to gender perceptions, stereotypes and attitudes present in the mind, and gender prejudices reflected in the behavior of individuals of marital and parent-child interaction, which generate gender differentiation, stratification, gender imbalance in the distribution of household responsibilities, household, educational, guardianship, recreational and other family roles in the field of unpaid domestic work. The aggravation of contradictions between partners in focusing on the egalitarian or patriarchal type of building family relationships and the tendency to dysfunctional development of the modern family, which manifests itself in overburdening women with family responsibilities, inflexibility of family norms, inconsistency of role behavior, ignoring the needs and feelings of family members, conflict interaction, domestic violence, blurred family life plans have been emphasized. The conditions for overcoming gender deprivation in the field of marriage and family are identified: the gender- oriented state family policy as a tool for strengthening and developing the social institution of the family, ensuring the comprehensive development of the family and its members, preventing and resisting domestic violence; the approval in the society the value of parity marital relations, equal distribution of domestic responsibilities, mutually responsible fatherhood / motherhood; educational activities to strengthen the egalitarian and weaken the patriarchal foundations of the modern Ukrainian family, the formation of zero tolerance of society to domestic violence; increasing the gender sensitivity of the population, expanding the rights and providing opportunities for a wife and a husband for personal and professional development; activation of personal resources of women and men to choose the optimal strategies of self-realization in the field of marital and family relations and other spheres of public life.