2009-03-01
Gender, political discourse and social welfare in Russia: Three case studies
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Canadian Slavonic Papers , Volume 51 - Issue 1 p. 3- 24
In Russia, post-communist reforms to state social benefit policies have shown contradictory views of gender. On the one hand, reform showed a desire to promote gender equality between individuals, a view in which men and women alike were considered autonomous citizens. On the other hand, there was an impulse to consider women as a needy group dependent on special help from the state. This paper examines three related areas of policy: pronatalist policy, child welfare benefits, and old age pensions, in order to reveal unresolved issues in Russian social policies towards women and children.
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Organisation | Department of Political Science |
Chandler, A. (2009). Gender, political discourse and social welfare in Russia: Three case studies. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 51(1), 3–24. doi:10.1080/00085006.2009.11092600
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