Teaching Gender in Russia

The importance of the educational component in§promoting gender equality is strongly emphasized by§the theorists of gender mainstreaming. §Higher education in the Russian Far East is§developing in the same directions as the whole§country. The number of higher educational§institutions and students is increasing. §At the same time, the pace of development in higher§education in the Russian Far East lags noticeably§behind other regions of the country. Due to the§geography of the region, universities in the Russian§Far East have limited opportunities to recruit highly§skilled staff from other universities or experts and§researchers from other fields. It makes universities§rely exclusively on their internal resources for§updating their faculty and staff. §This work represents a quantitative comparative§analysis of students awareness of basic concepts of§gender equality and gender mainstreaming depending on§their gender and the type of community where they§originate from. The study also examines the§differences among three academic programs offered at§Far Eastern State Technical University (FESTU),§Vladivostok, with regard to promoting gender §equality.