FORMATION OF MODERN IDEAS ABOUT GENDER AND GENDER RELATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Abstract

The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the political analysis of the gender resource of state policy and management. The formation of the concept of gender as a category of socio-humanitarian knowledge is determined and the political nature of gender relations in modern society is shown. Particular attention is paid to the political theory of feminism as an attempt to overcome male hegemony in political theory and the formation of gender political science as a new direction of political science. All this made it possible to raise the issue of the need to take into account the gender factor in politics in general and in state policy and management in particular