Sentence examples for soviet gender from inspiring English sources
And the issue of abortion gives possibly the most interesting insight into the strange myopia of Soviet gender politics.
During my graduate research, I worked with a civil society group in a former Soviet republic researching gender in public policy.
Though the prevailing Soviet ideology stressed gender equality in labor and education, and many Soviet women held jobs and advanced degrees, they did not participate in core political roles and institutions.
Some feminists have noted that the Soviet Communist idea of gender equality and its post-communist development created a triple burden, as women were expected to function in three roles: wife and mother; good worker or professional; and social activist (Petrova 1993).
FEMEN was founded in 2008 to protest gender discrimination in post-Soviet society, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
FEMEN was founded in 2008 in Ukraine to protest gender discrimination in post-Soviet society, and the organization has since earned a global reputation for its topless protests.
It is also the country that scored highest of the 13 post-Soviet countries included in the 2014 Global Gender Gap report, though it still struggles to close the gender pay gap.
But Sonia Ryang, an anthropologist at the University of Iowa, points out that the formal commitment to gender equality, transplanted from the Soviets, did not take root.
Moreover, most of the participants were brought up and spent most of their adult life during the Soviet era, which is culturally quite different from post-Soviet times; that might correspond to different gender expressions and gender identities and related drinking behaviour.
Latvia, where women make up 55% of the population, comes out top for women's rights in the 13 post-Soviet countries that are included in the World Economic Forum's 2014 Global Gender Gap report, though - like much of the rest of the world - it still struggles with a significant gender pay gap.
