Value system and realisation of personal potential of female engineering students in Russia

Psychological peculiarities of gender are widely discussed in science and in society. Male and female roles in modern community undergo great changes. Therefore value systems, motivation, self-actualization and other personal characteristics of man and women are being altered. Psychologists and sociologists give notice of reappraisal of gender values. Biologists, culture expert, anthropologist, sociologists and psychologists carry out a lot of gender studies on various aspects of the problem. In spite of all the social processes and shift in gender patterns both men and women display stereotyped concepts of their roles, positions, status, mode of life and career strategies. The stereotypes are imprinted on personal values and consequently influence the way of realization of personal potential in life and profession. Historically engineering is considered to be entirely masculine career. Therefore is may be assumed that girls who choose technological education have some peculiarities of value system that determines their motivation for engineering career. Thus the purpose of this research is to study the system of values and self-actualization strategies of female students at the “mannish” engineering university.