GENDER CHARACTERISTICS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY SERVICE: THEORETICAL ASPECT

Abstract

This article presents the most important gender aspects of the professionalization of military personnel, which significantly affect the combat readiness and moral and psychological climate in military collectives, and the effectiveness of the interaction of military servicemen and male servicemen in professional activities are presented. The most problematic issues that summarize the typical difficulties of women's of law enforcement and military service.  

As a result of the theoretical study, gender is defined as a multi-faceted concept, modeled by society and  supported by social institutions, system of values, norms and characteristics of male and female behavion, lifestyle and way of thinking, roles and relations between women and men, which they acquired as individuals in the process of socialization, and which are determined by social, political, economical and cultural context of life, fixes representation about a woman and men regarding their sex.

It is proved that modern processes of democratization of social relations, the formation of new ideas about the male and female role, on the possibility of women’s self-realization in law enforcement activities, they pointed to the possibilities of self-actualization in military affairs, although issues of the legal framework, the legal status of the serviceman of the NGU still remain unresolved.

Thus, the article proves that the manifestations of gender discrimination are those of gender stereotypes in the activity of power structures they have a negative impact on the motivation of women’s professional activity, their level of  self-realization and the choice of value orientations and attitudes.