Forming of regional balanced development strategy based on gender equilibrium index

Reforming of Territorial Department at present stage causes transition from strategy formation of social - economic development, based on regional labordivision to development of the strategy providing its competitiveness. The priority of regional development is not defined by natural raw material resources availability and a geographical location, but by infrastructure availabilityto develop economy and by the social advantages’level for the population living in the territory. Reasons for strategy of social and economic development assume now the account of not only economic advantages, but also the study of operating tendencies and determination of priorities in the social sphere. The article considers the concept of "strategic planning" and "the strategy of socio-economic planning"; provides the comparative characteristic of the existing and new approaches to formation of the regional balanced strategy; names the principles of social unit formation of the regional balanced development strategy; reveals the concept of gender and differentiated approach and calculates the index of gender equilibrium in the Russian Federation and Siberian Federal District.