Parkhomenko O. Gender-specific manipulative technologies in family justice of Ukraine: a sociological aspect

The dissertation solved a scientific problem, the essence of which lies in the contradiction between the presence of a significant number of sources on the study of gender discrimination as a subject of sociology of gender and the lack of special studies that would be devoted to gender discrimination of men as a gender group in Ukrainian legal proceedings. As a result of an empirical study, it was revealed that 69% of judges are inclined to consider gender-discriminatory practices as a tool to protect childhood and motherhood and determinants men’s moral imperfection of men and the moral superiority of women compared with them (27 and 32%, respectively). The key conclusion is formulated, according to which the data presented in the study reflect the dominant judicial practice, which expresses the ideology of matriarchal sexism, that is, the existence of unjustified advantages (cultural, social, political, economic, etc.) among women and mothers in relation to other gender groups. The point is that more than 95% of judges and 96–98% of lawyers believe that courts often take gender-discriminatory decisions on: the division of family property in favor of women for having common children; leaving the child with the mother; the use of moral and ethical repression (in the form of reproaches, revelations, accusations of improper fulfillment of their obligations of connections) against men receiving alimony assistance from women from working men while leaving the child with a woman after the divorce; claims against men to fulfill they have family and parental responsibilities on the part of judges and women.