Contract of «working mother»: violation or annulment? (To the question of gender policy in contemporary Russia) Cover Image

Контракт «работающей матери»: нарушения или расторжение? (К вопросу об особенностях гендерной политики в современной России)
Contract of «working mother»: violation or annulment? (To the question of gender policy in contemporary Russia)

Author(s): S. G. Ajvazova
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: contract of «working mother»; state policy towards women; women’s labor in society; patriarchate; homogenous masculinity; biological determinism; fear of state interference in personal life; civil activity of women

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the contract of «working mother» in contemporary Russia. It examines the forming and functioning of this contract in the Soviet times and the reasons of its erosion in 2000s.The actions of civil protests aimed at keeping this contract are analyzed. The author believes that breaking of the contract of «working mother» threatens the Russian state with serious demographic and political problems (civil activity of pregnant women and mothers with young children prove this statement).

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 13-22
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian
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