THE ESSENCE OF WAYS TO IMPLEMENT THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER EQUALITY AMONG EMPLOYEES

This article aims to clarify the concepts, signs, and types, as well as the socio-legal significance of modern approaches to implementing gender equality among Ukrainian employees. The methods of ensuring gender equality are proposed to be understood as the actual acts and techniques that are provided for by labor legislation and carried out by an authorized person. These methods are used to create and maintain conditions that fulfill all requirements of the principle of gender equality in the field of labor and employment. This article aims to clarify the concepts, signs, and types, as well as the socio-legal significance, of modern approaches to implementing gender equality among Ukrainian employees. The methods of ensuring gender equality are defined as actual acts and techniques provided for by labor legislation and carried out by authorized individuals to create and maintain conditions in which all requirements of the principle of gender equality in the field of labor and employment are fulfilled. Based on an examination of the signs of ways to implement organizational gender equality, the author categorizes these methods as positive, preventive, and protective. Protective methods, being one of the most commonly used means of implementing gender equality, include recognizing the employer's regime as one that excludes objectification of the principle, declaring employment contracts, collective agreements, and local acts invalid if they contradict the principle, temporarily changing an employee's status in response to discrimination, and holding the violators of the principle legally responsible. The article establishes the socio-legal significance of ways to implement the principle of gender equality for employees in Ukraine. These methods serve as building blocks for constructing Ukraine as a modern welfare state and democratic state, for the development of human-centred labour law, for the revitalization of the economy, and for the accomplishment of the European integration aspirations of the Ukrainian people, which are marked by a reduced tolerance for gender stereotypes.