RUSSIA: PERCENTAGE WORKING WOMEN
By Daryl R. Evans
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age
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Agricultural Age: Percentage of Working Women: Both men and women worked on the land together, keeping the family together.
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Industrial Age: Percentage of Working Women: Prestigious for middle and upper class men in the West if their wives did not work vs. lower class where women had to work to help support their families. In contrast, ideology in socialist countries promoted women's equality via working with men.
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Information Age: Percentage of Working Women: Increasing percentage of women working, whether married or single, for economic and personal growth reasons. People also living longer and having less children, thus women no longer needing to spend their whole lives raising children.
Information/Data on Percentage of Working Women in Russia
Women, who represent around one-half the work force, have been the primary victims of unemployment, constituting 90 percent of the unemployed in 1992.
Conclusions on Russia(Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Percentage of Women Working)
Although women make up half the work force, they have taken more than the lions share of hits in this economic downturn. For this reason I would put Russia in the industrial age in the percentage of women working.
Additional Online Sources on Russian Working Women