The article analyzes results of the second international scientific and practical conference “Gender Resources of Sustainable Development. International and Russian experience” (Moscow, March 4, 2022), which became an urgent response to the request to create an interdisciplinary academic platform at the RSUH on issues of the gender research and effective communication in modern social sciences and humanities. The list of participants and scope of their representation at that conference once again confirmed the continuing interest in gender studies, as well as an attempt to comprehend the implementation of the principle of gender equality in the global sustainable development agenda. Leading gender scientists from academic structures and the university science presented their informative reports, which reflect the deep connection with the Russian historical and national context of the state of gender, as well as taking into account the international experience of gender studies. The participants were particularly interested in the topics of national mechanisms for gender equality, gender characteristics of the power political perception in various historical epochs, the socio-economic status of Russian women as a factor of demographic development, the transformation of subjective characteristics and gender aspects of modern migration processes. The work was carried out within the framework of the RSUH project “Gender Studies as an interdisciplinary academic basis for effective scientific communication in modern social sciences and humanities”.

The article describes the theoretical and applied scientific views on the labor motivation study in the gender aspect are described. Psychologists are mainly engaged in research on the work motivation, they have determined that main male motive is achievement, main female motives is recognition. According to a sociological study, work ranks fourth in a person’s value orientations after family, health and material prosperity for men and women. The wage motive is the leading one among workers in all sectors of employment, men are slightly more interested in wages than women. External motives related to the work itself – working conditions, organization of work, proximity of work to the place of residence are the main among the workers of industry and agriculture. The internal motive – interest in the content side of work – ranks only 5th among industrial workers and 4th among agricultural workers, it is more female than male one. For women, the affiliation motive, the opportunity to be in a team is also very important, but that is merely the 6th rank position. Interest in the content side of work is more relevant for knowledge workers, it is the second position among university teachers and the third among medical professionals, that particular determines their work in this profession. For teachers and doctors, the usefulness of work for society is also important, for men and women it ranks 4th as a position. Thus, we state that gender differences in labor motivation are more pronounced in physical labor

The article analyzes the gender aspects of sustainable development, notes the high relevance of inclusion and gender diversity in this process. It mentions that companies that have implemented these principles in their practice achieve better economic efficiency. Based on a review of modern research and statistical data (UNESCO, OECD, McKinsey, Crowe), on the one hand, a conclusion can be drawn that the gender gap in higher education in developed countries is gradually closing. On the other, there is a gender segregation of professions, especially in STEM sciences, the digital sector and IT. In Russia, the proportion of women in the field of higher education is quite high, but among the scientific personnel of the highest qualification (professors), it is only 35%. Under the third mission of universities, we mean the activities of universities, directly or indirectly aimed at solving social and economic issues, including those related to the implementation of sustainable development goals. To that end the author summarizes that it is necessary to promote programs that support inclusion and gender diversity in higher education through programs of the corporate social responsibility and support. Universities are “guides” of sustainable development at the local level.

The article studies an aspect of women’s career advancement in the media industry, taking into account a proactive approach. Examples from various sectors of the media industry confirm the identified gender trends, historically emerging stereotypes and related features of achieving professional effectiveness for female representatives. The author’s novelty is the use and disclosure of the term proactivity in relation to women’s active life position and responsibility for professional development to ensure the sustainability of their socio-economic situation. The given comparative examples, based on modeling a proactive and reactive approach to managing one’s own career advancement, contrast with each other and allow one to draw a conclusion about their essential differences and consequences that require a more detailed analysis at the present stage of development of society. The material of the article is presented on the basis of a desk study, which included an analysis of media materials, statistics, and a secondary analysis of data from research centers.

The article substantiates the need to analyze the mechanisms for realizing the right to work of women during maternity leave from the standpoint of gender theory and notes the internal and external reasons that encourage mothers to become professionally active. It describes existing and potential support mechanisms: legal regulation of employment and employment protection; availability of preschool institutions for children under 3 years old; vocational training, retraining and advanced training; organization of an environment loyal to young mothers in the workplace; flexible tax laws for women entrepreneurs; stimulation of the leadership and entrepreneurial activity; promoting the principles of equal participation of both parents in the upbringing and care of children. The author draws a conclusion on the relevance and effectiveness of existing mechanisms, the most important of which is their fragmentation and lack of a conceptual understanding of the situation, what makes the specific issues of mothers unnoticed by the state and the public.

The coronavirus pandemic had a major impact on the Russian economy and actualized gender inequality issue in many areas of social life. The changes caused by the introduction of quarantine and social exclusion largely affected the labor relations, especially an issue of the women position in the labor market. The changes in society that the pandemic has caused put the gains in gender equality under a great risk. That was manifested in a reduction of women’s wages and an increase in unemployment. Along with working duties, women, being self-insulated at home, had to engage in children and to do household work. Such a situation can increase the gap in gender roles and also contribute to the development of further gender segregation in various sectors of the economy and professions.

The article presents the results of studies of children and adolescents on reading problems conducted in 2021. Special attention is paid to the study of gender differences in the reading of children of different sexes. Girls’ reading and boys’ reading differ greatly due to a number of factors. Genderotherness is most pronounced in adolescence. There is an objective need to use different methods and technologies to introduce girls and boys to reading.

The article, based on analyzing the network and open data, identifies and characterizes specifics in the implementation of measures of state family policy in the subjects of the Russian Federation, demonstrating a tendency to increase the birth rate. As a result of the conducted research, the points of intersection and fault lines between the activities of state structures (official discourse) and the expectations of civil society (civil discourse) regarding the assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency for measures taken in the field of support for Russian families in the subjects of the Russian Federation with a tendency to increase the birth rate are identified. Those subjects are able to respond in a timely manner to emerging faults in official and civil discourses and support the sustainable development of the regions and Russia as a whole.

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the issue of forming a future family image. The paper also highlights the influential factors that influence the formation of modern young people’s ideas about family and marriage (parental family, educational system, communication with coevals, the media). It describes the formation of gender identity, the primary and secondary gender identity. The paper reveals that respondents from full families have a positive attitude both to their parent family and to the future one. More than half of the surveyed students will listen to the opinion of a significant parent about their favored partner, that is, young people are not ready to defend their opinion, but will more readily take into account the experience of parents, avoiding misunderstandings and conflicts with them. The authors emphasize that formating an image of the future family is an integral part of the personality socialization.

The authors consider the issue of citizens’ use of digital technologies and services in everyday life and in manifestations of civic engagement. The answers of the respondents to the question about the different directions of technologies used show clear differences in the gender and educational cross-section and can be used both for further comparative analysis and for the development of projects to reduce the digital divide. For example, female respondents use portals of state, educational and medical services more often than men, while male respondents are more active than women in Internet discussions on social and political issues. There is a noticeable difference in the entertainment sphere: as the level of education increases, male respondents use online opportunities to spend their leisure time less and less frequently. While women, on the contrary, the higher the level of education, the more often the use of “digital” for the leisure, recreation, entertainment was noted. The authors conclude that the preservation of an extremely high burden on women in matters of organizing the family life (health care, housing and utilities, education and recreation of children, shopping, etc.) forces women to more actively master and more often use digital innovations for optimization in solving the household difficulties.

The poetic line of Andrey Voznesensky “not nostalgia for the past, nostalgia for the present” is interpreted as the content of the collective female memory of the life of scientific institutions that were part of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And as the memory of details in everyday life lost during the years of perestroika – it is precisely that everyday life of the academic community that is as a manifestation of the “present” – real satisfaction with their work, real involvement in their professional work, as the absence of doubt in the correctness of the choice of life path. An analysis of the Russian experience of the academic life anthropology, which emerged in the 2010s as an independent direction in the anthropology of everyday life, shows the heuristic possibilities of applying content analysis approaches to such sequences of biographical stories. The gender aspect of such memories (“autogynographs”) as an independent approach to obtaining special aspects of the everyday history of the Soviet past that has not been studied before. How did the collectivity of the life in the former research institutes remain in the memory of women scientists of the older generation? Why does the older generation of female researchers have a desire to share the details of their former lifestyle, nostalgically reporting small details? What engraved in the memory of that older generation of women scientists, whose talents were realized during the Khrushchev thaw and the Brezhnev stagnation, and what is the relationship between the official discourse of collective memory and the individual image of the institute past, which is remembered and heard in oral biographies?

The article reveals the role of Lidia Alekseevna Shanyavskaya as the inspirer and organizer of the Moscow People’s University (1908). The author, relying on archival materials, recreates the higher educational institution process of institutionalization, which can be divided into 3 stages. The first stage (September–November 1905) relates to the activities of Alfons Leonovich Shanyavsky, who determined the democratic grounds for its opening (no restrictions on gender, nationality and religion), bequeathed funds for its maintenance and limited its opening deadline – November 3, 1908. At that stage, Lidia Alekseevna was officially tasked to represent her husband in organizing the work for opening the People’s University. The second stage (December 1905 – December 1907) is associated with the work of a specially created Commission consisting of the best representatives of the intelligentsia: M.M. Kovalevsky, S.A. Muromtsev, A.N. Reformatsky, V.K. Rot, M.V. Sabashnikov, N.V. Speransky, K.A. Timiryazev, A.N. Sheremetievskaya, V.E. Yakushkin. The Commission had to overcome the resistance of the Ministry of Public Education, which tried to take control over the appointment of the rector and teachers, as well as the discipline content, and the Interior Ministry, which was afraid of lifting all restrictions and turning the university into a forge of unreliable citizens. At that stage, Lydia Alekseevna’s role was to restrain attempts to open a university covertly bypassing the authoryties obstruction in violation of Shanyavsky’s will for an educational institution where systematic lectures would be given according to the sanctioned curricula. The third stage (January–November 1908) belongs exclusively to L.A. Shanyavskaya. Thanks to the skill of women’s diplomacy, she managed to build a dialogue with the Minister of Education A.N. Schwartz and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers P.A. Stolypin and open the People’s University.

The proposed work touches upon important aspects of women’s social historical memory, which, using the example of everyday aspects (in particular, those related to childbearing practices) of life in a Soviet city, becomes part of nostalgia for the Soviet past. The study was carried out on the materials of oral history, the history of everyday life, the ethno-gender approach and the theory of historical memory. It can be noted that the construction of maternity hospitals in cities, the creation of a system of medical care at enterprises and at women’s consultations in the USSR at that time made it possible to abandon many outdated traditions inherent in young families, but in general, the system of traditional ethno-gender views continued to be present. in the life of citizens during that period, including in the behavior associated with the birth of a child. However, the symbolism associated with the attributes of the birth of children in the 1950s–60s. (maternity hospital, solemn meeting of the spouse with the child, etc.) can already be considered as part of the nostalgia for the Soviet past. The factors shaping such nostalgia were: the transition from rustic birth traditions to urban practices; to the accelerated decision to have a child in young families in order to get the unscheduled housing (a room in a communal (shared) apartment or a separate apartment).

The article deals with the study in specifics of the girls self-attitude. It gives data on their relationship with significance, realization, conflict of significance and realization of various values, life satisfaction. It is indicatedthat with increasing age, girls achieve greater inner harmony. An important role in shaping the self-attitude of girls can be played by the value sphere of the individual, in particular, the practical implementation of values. Of particular importance are the values of physical attractiveness and material well-being. An excessive increase in the conflict of significance and the implementation of values can negatively affect the self-attitude of girls. Such areas of life as education and health may be underestimated by young girls, and therefore do not have a significant impact on their self-attitude, which is also characteristic of the creative work value, which girls also do not correlate much with their own personality.

This article deals with the significance of the independence value of girls in some social aspects. It presents the results of an empirical study of the relationship between the significance of that value and the significance and implementation of other instrumental and terminal values, as well as the severity of psychological variables of the initiative and career value orientations. It is indicated that the studied value has a low motivational potential and occupies a middle place in the hierarchy of significance of other instrumental values. An interpretation is given for the absence of interrelations between the value of independence and the psychological variables of the initiative and career value orientations. In the course of studying the semantic content and content of that value, positive relationships with freedom and self-confidence, as life valuesgoals, and negative relationships with the values-means of honesty, sensitivity, and tolerance are explored. The relationship between the significance of the value of independence and the realization of the value of external physical attractiveness is analyzed. There also is a description and interpretation of the relationship between the significance of the studied value and the level of conflict between the significance and the implementation of the creative work value.