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About this book
The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy of discrimination. The Soviet Union was the first country to give women equal rights and equal pay, but this was not carried through in practice. This is the first study to apply modern econometrics to survey-data collected in the USSR. Analysis of data from Russia shows how legislative equality hid actual discrimination. Katz also challenges the conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favoured over the highly educated. Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage-system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in post-Soviet Russia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Gender, Discrimination and Western Economic Theory1
- 3 Soviet Wages and Salaries
- 4 Women and Men in Taganrog and in the USSR
- 5 The Wages of Soviet Women and Men
- 6 Pay and Education
- 7 Taganrog Post-USSR: Patriarchy, Poverty, Perspectives
- 8 Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index