THE MOTIVATIONAL FACTOR OF GENDER ASYMMETRY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the provision that gender asymmetry (inequality) in government bodies depends essentially on gender differences in professional and service motivation. The subject of the study is gender asymmetry in the government of the Belgorod region. The results of the author's sociological research “State and Dynamics of Gender Relations in the Sphere of State Administration of the Belgorod Region” are used. It is established that women are inferior to men in the motivation of service advancement due to internal inconsistency of motives, irrelevant motivational attitudes, weakened leadership attitudes, weakened results orientation, weakened competitive attitudes, dominant orientation to comfortable relationships, dispersiveness of motivational structure, weakened achievement motivation. The field of application the improvement of personnel processes in state and municipal government.