FOREIGN EXPERIENCE IN ENSURING GENDER EQUALITY: SOCIAL AND LEGAL RESEARCH

Abstract

The article is devoted to identifying the foreign positive experience of the Nordic countries in the construction of a social policy of gender equality. Based on the involvement of a wide regulatory framework in textual content analysis, which consolidates the mechanisms for ensuring the principle of gender equality, the author emphasizes the versatility and consistency in the development of strategies and policies and social practices for equal rights for men and women. The author emphasizes that, in particular, in Finland, the minimization and leveling of gender asymmetry is supported by the national quota system. This approach is aimed at comprehensively ensuring a gender-neutral configuration of social practices. Such a humanistic trajectory of the policy of gender equality finds consolidation at the level of special legislation. The publication found that guided by both imperative and dispositive principles in this group of countries, a whole system of anti-discrimination legislation was adopted and is being effectively implemented. Through the establishment of special public authorities in Norway, Finland, Iceland and Sweden, state guarantees of the principle of gender equality are fully ensured.