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The purpose of the project: to study career strategies and trajectories of young women in public organizations, state and municipal agencies and bodies as a special type of organizations that develop and implement state and municipal policy.

Tasks:

1. to study the concept of «male» and «female» fields of work in public administration, «male» and «female» staff, work with chiefs of different sexes;

2. to identify the gender specificity of women's labor strategies in various departments of public authorities of Russia in a comparative perspective with other countries;

3. to investigate situations of gender discrimination and attitudes to the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the workplace;

4. to determine the views on the possibilities of combining family and work load of women working in the public administration;

5. to carry out a comparative analysis of similarities and differences in these areas in the analyzed countries.

Research methodology:

1.     study of the situation of men and women in Russia, Ghana, Israel, Finland in public authorities (official statistics of these countries, open sources, position in international rankings, etc.);

2.     gender expertise of the legal framework of Russia, Ghana, Israel, Finland, regulating gender issues;

3.     analysis of a series of autobiographical narrative in-depth interviews with women and men public servants in Russia, Ghana, Israel, Finland;

4.     analysis of relevant statistical information using SPPS or R to identify possible statistical patterns.