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<p>This thesis contends that the government of the Russian Federation will benefit more  from policies that end job discrimination against women than policies aimed at trying to  get women to embrace their traditional gender role as wife and mother in hopes that it  will improve fertility rates. While Russia is enduring concurrent demographic and  economic crises, there are trade-offs between empowering women with equal job  opportunity and high fertility rates, usually referred to as the Demographic-economic  Paradox. While fertility rates are an important aspect of population growth, evidence  indicates that the high mortality rate is more detrimental to Russia's population growth  rates. Thus, government policies to curb needless deaths will be more beneficial for the  Russian population overall than attempts to revitalize traditional gender roles to increase  fertility rates, especially in a depressed economic environment. Moreover, as the sex ratio  of women to men increases, changes in the social and economic structure are inevitable.
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<br>Subjects: Macroeconomics; Sex discrimination against women; Discrimination in employment</div>
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Deitle, Lisa A.</div>
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