Valeriya Utkina at the ASPA’s annual conference in Denver, Colorado, the USA

On March 9-13, 2018, an international conference of the American Society of Public Administration was held in Denver (the USA).

The co-head of the Research Group Valeriya Utkina presented two reports on feminization of public administration in Russia. She also participated in the Section on “Women in public administration” (SWPA), which has been in place since 1972.

At the “Equity, Equality and Empowerment” section V. Urkina presented her study on “Professionalization of Female Civil Servants in Modern Russia”. The presentation got good feedback. The second study on “Feminization of civil service: the Russian case or a world trend?” was presented at the section of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) called “Public Administration and

Democracy – What Does the Future Look like”.

 

ASPA holds the largest global annual conferences on Public Administration.  The conference has scientific, practical and professional nature. The theme of this year’s conference, “Mission focused and service first; creating innovative solutions”, reflects the need for academic scrutiny and self-reflection of practitioners of policymaking.

 

The conference is the venue for experts from difference areas of public administration to get together. However, the women’s leadership and the situation of women in public authorities occupy a special place at the conference.  The section on “Women in public administration” (SWPA) includes a range of activities.  The SWPA section culminated in the Award Ceremony for Women in Public Administration accompanied by brilliant speech of Dr. Brenda Allen. Later, in the margins of the conference, V.Utkina introduced B.Allen to the work of the Research Group. The professor expressed a keen interest in the subject of the Group’s study.