Female deputies of administrative centers of the Volga Federal District: Socio-political characteristics
The object of the analysis is the composition of female deputy corps of the municipal level in the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation, based on changes following the election results for September 13, 2020. The empirical basis of the study is the biographical data of the deputies The empirical basis of the study is the biographical data of the deputies posted on the official websites of the bodies of representation of the subjects. Asymmetry and the presence of a gender pyramid remain stable characteristics of the female representation model, but the configuration of the models differs at two levels. In the part of the representative bodies of the subjects a distortion of the gender pyramid is recorded: at the regional level a higher percentage of female representation is recorded than at the municipal level. Politically, representatives of the «United Russia» party dominate. There is no tendency towards professionalization of the deputy corps: the majority of the deputies combine their main professional activities with representation. We note the tendency of social closeness of the municipal female corps of the Volga Federal District: representatives of the management staff of budget organizations and persons with experience in managing the economic structures of small and medium-sized businesses dominate. Representatives of the public sector have an insignificant advantage over the representatives of business; there is an obvious tendency to equalize the ratio. More than a quarter of them have multiple experience of elections and permanent experience of political activity in the apparatus of political parties, only a small part of women has experience of working in government bodies in the past. Pedagogy and other Humanity specialties are no longer the dominant profession of women deputies. Economics, management and law all together exceed the representation of educators, which indicates social change in representation.