Gender issues of Ukrainian higher education

Abstract. Due to miscalculations of innovation and educational policies, the higher
school and science in Ukraine have been driven out of the government priorities sphere,
becoming a low-status and low-income area of professional activity. In such circumstances, there is an active involvement of women in science, which center has moved to
a higher education, focused in it the two-thirds of the country’s scientific potential. In
formal statistical parity of higher educational scientific and pedagogical personnel, there
exists a gender gap in the branch, official and status distribution. The author has revealed
the trends in the development of gender asymmetry in the formation of Ukrainian Higher
School scientific and pedagogical staff analyzed the features of horizontal display and
vertical occupational segregation. The influence of scientific and teaching staff gender
asymmetry as a measurement of higher education hidden curriculum on the formation
of the student gender culture.
Keywords: gender asymmetry, women in science, scientific and teaching staff of
higher school, hidden curriculum, gender culture.