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The Influence of Women's Representation at the Political Level on the Public Service

Student: Zelenkova Anastasiia

Supervisor: Valeriya Utkina

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Public Administration (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

The paper examines the problem of the influence of women's political representation on public service. The aim of the work is to assess the impact of women's representation at the political level on public service. The subject of the study are women leaders at the political level, and the subject is mechanisms for promoting women to leadership positions. The theoretical part of the work fills the gap in studies on the topic of political representation, while the practical part of the work allows to assess the representation of women in the upper echelons of power in Russia and in Africa, which today occupy the leading positions in the world in terms of the number of women in parliaments. The empirical part of the work contains content analysis of open federal and regional authorities and 20 expert interviews with state civil servants. The results of the analysis confirm the hypotheses posed at the beginning of the work.

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