Women Director Career in Charitable Foundations

The master's thesis is devoted to the analysis of the manifestation of gender segregation and gender order mechanisms in charitable organizations. The main research issue is how is the women director career realised in a charitable organization, how are the discourses and rules in the charitable organization supported and reproduced the gender order. This research is an actual because it is able to reveal the mechanism of reproducing gender inequality at the level of a charitable organization in modern conditions; in addition, it describes the phenomenon of women's leadership in this field. The structural and constructivist theory R. Connell is a fundamental theoretical framework of research, according to which power and inequality is the basis of gender relations, and person is able, both to act within the framework of structures, and to change them. The thesis describes the women director individual career experience in charitable organizations, the impact of gender disproportion on the work of the organization as a whole. This research helps to look at the phenomenon of women's employment in charitable organizations in a new way; it describes the mechanism of reproduction and maintenance of gender order. In addition, the work can be applied for practical purposes, for example, for popularize the sphere of charity.