Everyday life of female students of Omsk Polytechnic Institute in the first half of the 1980s

Everyday life of female students of Omsk Polytechnic Institute in the first half of the 1980s

Authors

  • Alexander Vladimirovich ZHIDCHENKO Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklukho-Maklay of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Keywords:

female education, everyday life, social memory, city, Omsk Polytechnic Institute

Abstract

This article is devoted to one of the little-studied episodes of women's history - an analysis of the features of the daily life of female students in the first half of the 1980s based on women's oral history materials - materials of unstructured autobiographical interviews collected by the author. Omsk Polytechnic Institute was chosen as an example of a technical university as one of the largest educational institutions of this profile in Siberia, located in one of the districts of the industrially developed city of Omsk. The study showed that, on the one hand, the girls experienced a number of difficulties associated with entering this university and studying here. On the other hand, studying at a university with a clear gender imbalance towards male students provided a number of advantages both in studies and in choosing future life strategies.

Published

2026-08-10

Issue

Section

The History of Women's Education in Russia's Regions (on the 155th Anniversary of the P.P. Maksimovich School)
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