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Authors
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Oxana V. Milaeva — Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the sub-department of Philosophy and Social Communication, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, milaevaov@mail.ru
Albert E. Siushkin — Candidate of Sociology, Associate Professor of the sub-department of Theory of State and Law and Political Studies, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, bert_s@mail.ru
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Abstract
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Background. The relevance of exploring the modern model of women's representation is determined by the fixed gender imbalance and gender asymmetry in the political space of the Russian Federation. The gender studies of political representation have accumulated considerable background, the methodological base with a multidisciplinary approach has been formed. Women's participation in power relations has been examined in various aspects: the statistics of women's presence has been analyzed, the qualitative characteristics of the women's composition in the representative bodies have been identified, public opinion on participation of women in public policy has been evaluated. Russian historiography has covered the forming media image of women politicians, image characteristics, and stereotypes of public consciousness. However, there are no comprehensive studies of the opinion of female deputies regarding the problems of women's representation in the political sphere, which determines the relevance and novelty of the research. Materials and methods. The empirical material is collected using the online questionnaire method through placing the questionnaire on the CoogleForms online server and continuous mail-ing to the addressees. The scope of the research is female deputies of regional legislative assemblies and representative bodies of local governments in the administrative centers of the constituent entities in the Russian Federation. The focus is the assessment by current female deputies of the problems faced by women politicians in the modern system of repre-sentative bodies. The objectives are to fix the attitude of female deputies to various aspects of the women's status in modern Russian public policy and to identify a range of assess-ments of the problems existing in modern women's representation. Results. The research contributes to forming a general framework for female deputies to assess the problems ex-isting in the social and political space in terms of women's political representation. Conclu-sions. The research allows recording the assessment of women's representation in terms of the quantitative representation and gender imbalance in the political sphere, the reasons for reduced women's representation in the political space, the measures to expand women's political participation and prospects of institutions promoting women in public policy, the forms of discrimination against women politicians and gender stereotypes in politics.
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Keywords
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gender research, political representation, political participation, women in politics, deputies, regional representation, municipal representation, regional legislatures, female deputies
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