Gender identity and gender mentality: theoretical overview analysis

The aim of the paper is to identify the peculiarities of the content of definitions of the categories “gender identity” and “gender mentality”. It is revealed that the first of them corresponds to a greater extent to the thematized socio-cultural reality. This concept is more developed in modern science, while the concept of “gender mentality” is a relatively new and not yet sufficiently developed concept in scientific terms, therefore, in modern literature one can rarely find studies that analyze this concept. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to take into account the differences in the depth of conceptualization of the terms “gender mentality” and “gender identity”. Currently, there is a transformation of gender mentality, which leads to an inversion of masculine and feminine strategies of human behavior. Gender identity depends on a person’s ability to understand himself, realize his position in the sociocultural space and effectively adapt to society.