Horizontal and Vertical Gender Segregation in Russia—Changes upon Labour Market Entry before and after the Collapse of the Soviet Regime

Kosyakova, Yuliya; Kurakin, Dmitry; Blossfeld, Hans‐Peter

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“…Economic and political shocks due to civil wars and revolutions added additional uncertainties in the lives of young people in these countries. The prevailing labor market problems put the socialist heritage of gender egalitarianism under pressure, as it had in Russia (Kosyakova, Kurakin, and Blossfeld 2015). In addition, the transition from socialism to capitalism removed external legal and institutional constraints on discrimination against women by employers (Gerber and Mayorova 2006).…”

Section: The Structural Institutional and Cultural Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, formal jobs are usually associated with having a working contract and social security coverage. There is a historic pattern of strong sex-specific occupational segregation in post-Soviet countries, with female employment concentrated in the formal sector such as occupations in the education sector or public sector (Gerber and Mayorova 2006; Kosyakova, Kurakin, and Blossfeld 2015). As mentioned, informal sector jobs are a second choice because of their low quality.…”

Section: Theories and Hypothesesmentioning

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Young Women’s Transition from Education to Work in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Gebel¹

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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This article analyzes the individual- and family-level factors that pave the way to the labor market and to formal sector jobs for young women in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Retrospective life history data from a 2017 survey in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan show that higher education attainment has a strong positive impact on labor market activity and getting a formal sector job. Early family formation drives young women into inactivity, but it does not limit the chances of getting access to the formal sector. The chances of getting a formal sector job are positively influenced by the social resources of parents in Georgia and Tajikistan and by parents’ economic resources in Azerbaijan and Georgia. Evidence about the role of economic need and of traditionalism for women’s labor market participation is mixed.

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Section: The Structural Institutional and Cultural Backgroundmentioning

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Section: Theories and Hypothesesmentioning

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Young Women’s Transition from Education to Work in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Gebel¹

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…They contemplated their sense of loneliness and the pressures of working life, pushing them to devote themselves fully to work and leaving very little time for anything else. This experience is connected with the significant gendered disadvantage of Russian labour markets, with endemic gender discrimination, gender pay gaps, and vertical and horizontal gender segregation (Kosyakova et al, 2015). Moreover, early marriage and motherhood continue to be widely endorsed cultural norms, which also create pressure for young women (see Mazzarino, 2013).…”

Section: Dealing With Exhaustion By Cultivating Femininitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Treading the tightrope of femininity: Transforming gendered subjectivity in a therapeutic community

Perheentupa

Salmenniemi

2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This article examines the therapeutic self-transformation process in a self-help group in Russia. Drawing on participant observation and interviews, and engaging with debates on therapeutic technologies and the transformation of gender relations, it explores how the self-help group shapes how participants come to understand and act upon themselves. It shows that the process of self-transformation is profoundly gendered, problematising femininity and identifying it as an object of therapeutic intervention. Rather than collectively contesting gendered power and disadvantage, participants are invited to cultivate traditional notions of femininity and masculinity and learn to draw pleasure from them. We argue that this message may be appealing to women because it speaks to their lived experience of exhaustion and precarity, and offers them the prospect of overcoming it through a mythologised heteronormative order. It offers solace and a potential escape route where room for political agency is limited and feminist discourse heavily vilified. Yet the article also shows that participants do not merely internalise the ideological messages of the group, but engage with them in contradictory and ambivalent ways.

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“…The few existing analyses typically note cultural and economic challenges that Central Asian migrant women face as they seek to reconcile traditional gender norms with demands and expectations in the Russian labor market (Tyurukanova 2011), challenges that are further exacerbated by entrenched gender inequalities in Russian society (e.g., Kosyakova, Kurakin, and Blossfeld 2015). While these challenges are unique in their specific configurations and manifestations, they parallel those identified in the western scholarship cited earlier.…”

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Legality, Racialization, and Immigrants’ Experience of Ethnoracial Harassment in Russia

2017

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Using data from a structured survey and in-depth interviews in three Russian cities, our study engages the scholarship on immigration legal regimes and racialization practices to examine the experiences of ethnoracially motivated harassment among working migrant women from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan in Russia. The results of statistical analyses show that regularized legal status is associated with a significantly lower likelihood of experiencing harassment at the hands of law enforcement agents and other actors alike. Regardless of legal status, however, the analyses reveal significant variations across the three migrant groups, with members of the group that is seen as racially most distinct from the host population having the highest odds of reporting harassment. The analysis of in-depth interviews confirms and expands on these patterns, providing additional insights into the complex expressions and interplay of legality and race in migrants’ everyday experiences. The study findings are situated within the cross-national literature on migrants’ legal and ethnoracial exclusion in receiving contexts.

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Horizontal and Vertical Gender Segregation in Russia—Changes upon Labour Market Entry before and after the Collapse of the Soviet Regime

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Young Women’s Transition from Education to Work in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Young Women’s Transition from Education to Work in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Treading the tightrope of femininity: Transforming gendered subjectivity in a therapeutic community

Legality, Racialization, and Immigrants’ Experience of Ethnoracial Harassment in Russia

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