GENDER DIMENSION OF RUSSIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
In the article, entrepreneurship is defined as a form of activity that allows solving the most important social and economic problems of society, as well as personal problems of a particular person, which actualizes the search for resources to expand it. From the point of view of the authors, female entrepreneurship is one of the main resources that can significantly increase business efficiency in solving socio-economic problems of society. The determination of the place and role of female entrepreneurship in Russian entrepreneurship as a whole necessitates the use of a gender approach, which in the article is based on understanding gender as a socio-cultural construct and which underlies the gender dimension of Russian entrepreneurship.The empirical basis for writing this article was the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), The Gender Equity Index, The Gender Inequality Index, The Gender Development Index (GDI), Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs, and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring: Russia National Report.Based on the gender approach, the article explains: differences in the quantitative indicators of the participation of women and men in business; horizontal (sectoral) segregation present in entrepreneurship as a field of activity and based on gender stereotypes; gender differentiated business motivation. The gender analysis of Russian entrepreneurship carried out in the article also demonstrates the gender difference in the composition of early and established entrepreneurship, which affects the stability and volume of business. In general, the gender dimension of Russian entrepreneurship shows that the resource of women's entrepreneurship is not fully utilized, and its current position does not make it possible to bridge the gender gap that exists in entrepreneurship and the economy as a whole.