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Lone Mothers In Russia: Soviet And Post-Soviet Policy

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One would expect centrally planned socialist systems, designed to socialize the costs and benefits of childrearing, to be particularly supportive of lone mothers and the transition to a market economy in Russia therefore to have hurt lone mothers and their children more than other groups. While the evidence confirms that lone mothers are among the poorest groups in Russia today, I argue that their position at the bottom of the income distribution is not new and that it is the government's retreat since the mid-1980s from its commitment to women as workers, rather than to women as mothers, that has made their lives especially difficult.

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  • Judith Record McKinney, 2004. "Lone Mothers In Russia: Soviet And Post-Soviet Policy," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 37-60.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:10:y:2004:i:2:p:37-60
    DOI: 10.1080/1354570042000217711
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    1. Lokshin, Michael & Harris, Kathleen Mullan & Popkin, Barry M., 2000. "Single Mothers in Russia: Household Strategies for Coping with Poverty," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 28(12), pages 2183-2198, December.
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    1. Cordula Zabel, 2008. "Patterns of partnership formation among lone mothers in Russia," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2008-020, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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