Karikova, M: Teaching Gender in Russia

The importance of the educational component inpromoting gender equality is strongly emphasized bythe theorists of gender mainstreaming. Higher education in the Russian Far East isdeveloping in the same directions as the wholecountry. The number of higher educationalinstitutions and students is increasing. At the same time, the pace of development in highereducation in the Russian Far East lags noticeablybehind other regions of the country. Due to thegeography of the region, universities in the RussianFar East have limited opportunities to recruit highlyskilled staff from other universities or experts andresearchers from other fields. It makes universitiesrely exclusively on their internal resources forupdating their faculty and staff. This work represents a quantitative comparativeanalysis of students' awareness of basic concepts ofgender equality and gender mainstreaming depending ontheir gender and the type of community where theyoriginate from. The study also examines thedifferences among three academic programs offered atFar Eastern State Technical University (FESTU),Vladivostok, with regard to promoting gender equality.