Subnational gender equality: balance of EU values and Ukrainian realities

2026-07-22

In Ukrainian society, gender inequality persists both formally and informally, a variety of gender stereotypes are widespread, a low level of awareness of the population on issues of gender equality is traced, there are no reliable and regularly collected statistics disaggregated by sex. At the national and subnational levels, gender inequality has various forms of manifestation, which makes it difficult to develop and implement effective policy measures. At the institutional level, gender inequality in Ukraine is practically not analysed. Therefore, the study of gender (in) equality, informing the public about this issue and promoting gender equality based on the values and best practices of the EU countries is relevant. The implementation of this project is relevant from the standpoint of assimilating European values, culture and experience in promoting gender equality, getting rid of conservative patriarchal stereotypes. It is also relevant in the context of the formation of the new Ukrainian school as gender neutral. Thus, the main goal of the project is to popularize gender issues among different sectors of the population and to draw public attention to the promotion of gender equality and the universal inclusion of gender dimensions. The implementation of the project to study and implement the core values and experience of the EU countries on gender equality in Ukraine at the subnational and institutional levels provides for a range of various activities. First of all, this is the formation of students and teachers' abilities to navigate the features of international European practice in the field of gender educational statistics, gender stereotypes and prejudices in education and technology of gender education. This will take place in the form of introducing a course by choice into the practice of teaching students of pedagogical specialties, as well as in the form of holding summer schools.

Ukraine

2025-12-15