Introduction by Gatskova, Karabchuk, Kumo, Skoglund
Part 1. Gender and Demography
Chapter 1. Evolution of gender role attitudes, gender equality and fertility in Russia by Ekaterina Skoglund (IOS)
Chapter 2. Drivers of fertility and labour force participation in times of transition: Evidence from Armenia by Serafima Chirkova (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) and Sona Kalantaryan (European University Institute)
Chapter 3. Gender asymmetries, labor and fertility in an urbanizing Muslim society: the case of North Caucasus (Russia) by Kazenin, Vladimir Kozlov (HSE)
Chapter 4. Elderly care by women in Russia by Noriko Igarashi (Teiko University)
Chapter 5. Gender differences in elderly employment participation in Russia by Oksana Sinyavskaya (HSE), Anna Ermolina (HSE)
Chapter 6. Gender differences in youth employment patterns in post-soviet countries by Anita Poplavskaya (HSE)
Part 2. Gender and Labour Market
Chapter 7. Gender wage gap in Ukraine by Ksenia Gatskova (IOS)
Chapter 8. Gender differences in pay at the labour market in Belarus by Alina Verashchagina (Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy) and Maryia Akulava (BEROC, Minsk, Belarus)
Chapter 9. Gender wage gap in Russia by Alexei Oshchepkov (NRU HSE)
Chapter 10. Motherhood wage penalty in Russia by Tatiana Karabchuk (UAEU)
Chapter 11. Gender differences in education to job transitions in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan by Michael Gebel (Bamberg University), Ksenia Gatskova (IOS) and Tatiana Karabchuk (UAEU)?
Chapter 12. Gendered professional identity construction of female STEM scientists in Russia by Anna Khanukaeva (HSE) and Lili Di Puppo (HSE)
Part 3. Gender Values, Violence and political participation
Chapter 13. Gender equality values in Kazakhstan by Aigul Zabirova (UAEU)
Chapter 14. Women's Voices: Gender Survey in Tajikistan by Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University), Noriko Igarashi (Teiko University
Chapter 15. Civil Society Development and Women's Collective Action in post-Soviet Kazakhstan by Elena Maltseva (University of Windsor) and Saltanat Janenova (Nazarbayev University)
Chapter 16. Gender Equality and Post-materialist Values as Determinants of employment and Income in Central Asian countries by Tatiana Karabchuk (UAEU) and Daria Salnikova (HSE)
Concluding Remarks by Gatskova, Karabchuk, Kumo, Skoglund
About the Author: Karabchuk Tatiana, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Government and Society, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain. Her research interests include labour market studies, demography, happiness and cross-country comparative studies in education and employment. Her articles on youth employment and fertility, informal employment, family values, job stability and subjective well-being are published in such journals as The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Journal of Happiness Studies, Service Industries Journal, and Asia-Pacific Population Journal among others.
Kazuhiro Kumo, Ph.D., is a Full Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He is the author of Migration and Regional Development in the Soviet Union and Russia (Beck Publisher Russia, 2003) and Demography of Russia (with T. Karabchuk and E. Selezneva, Palgrave Macmilan, 2017), along with articles published in Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Communist Economies, Comparative Economic Studies and Polar Science, among others. His research focuses on demography, migration, and economic geography of the former Soviet Union and Russia.
Kseniia Gatskova, Ph.D., is a Researcher, quantitative sociologist working at the Economics Department of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. Her research interests encompass post-Soviet transformation, social inequality, migration, and gender studies as well as methods of empirical social research. Her recent publications appeared, among others, in the Journal of Comparative Economics, International Migration, Feminist Economics, and Social Indicators Research.
Ekaterina Skoglund, Ph.D., is a Management Research and Dissertation Coordinator at the EU Business School in Munich and the Associated Researcher at the Leibiniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg). Ekaterina published successfully in such journals as The Journal of Economic Inequality, Economics of Transition, IZA World of Labour, and Economic Systems. Her scientific and professional interests include applied research related to labor market and gender economics topics, specifically focused on the usage of subjective measures.
