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Current topic: What seems to be the problem, Mommy?

• It looked so easy on paper…

• Labor rights aren’t easy to study

• How we worked with the database

• Who complains about what and where

• What variation and regression analysis shows

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

Gender differences in labor

• Gender statistics of the labor market are developing, but remain incomplete, particularly in less developed countries

• Participation of women in the workforce is less than that of men in all regions of the world

• Women's unemployment is higher than men’s in all regions except East Asia and Eastern Europe

• Women work more often as self-employed or family workers

• Payment for women's work is still lower than for men's

• The number of countries providing parental leave is growing

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Determinants of employment for mothers in Russia

• Criticism of social policy in the current agenda of the parental community

• Social policy in the field of parenting: a comparative analysis (Russia-France)

Take care of women!

• 17 goals for sustainable development

• “The World’s Women 2015”

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of women of reproductive age in 2020 will have shrunk by 3.7 million people

• Mortality in Russia has decreased in comparison with the beginning of 2015

• In Moscow, mortality is decreasing and life expectancy increasing

• Problems of demography should not be decided by economists

• Alexei Kudrin predicts increase in the retirement age after the presidential election

• Russians need a reform of the pension system instead of a rise in the retirement age

• State Duma proposes referendum on raising the retirement age

• Ulyukaev proposes to raise retirement age to 63 for both men and women

• The difference in the retirement age for men and women must be preserved

• Is the debate on raising the retirement age pointless?

• The benefits of increasing the retirement age of civil servants in 2016 will come to 622 million rubles

• Will the funded part of pensions not be canceled?

• Golodets expects to index pensions in 2016 by 12%

• Minimum wage in 2016 will be increased by 4%

• The size of the maternity capital in 2016 will not be indexed

• Government has increased subsidies to Federation Subjects for payouts to families on the birth of a third child

• Russia will report to the UN on the situation of women in the country

• Government will extend the state “Accessible Environment” program to 2020

• Nearly 14% of young people in the Russian Federation cannot find work

• Half of the unemployed citizens of Russia have degrees in economics and law

• 15-16 million foreigners enter Russia annually

• FMS chief to assess the feasibility of a migration amnesty in Russia next year

• Crimea expects influx of migrant workers in 2016

• Government discussing raising the age at which alcohol can be sold

• Skvortsova interested in banning alcohol sales on Fridays

• Roizman proposes to sell alcohol in special stores, not to introduce a “dry day”

• Moscow Duma deputies support introduction of a 10% salary increase for non-smokers

• Infant mortality in St. Petersburg is lower than in the rest of Russia

• Health Ministry plans to further facilitate access to pain medication for cancer patients

• About 168 thousand children in Russian have not been vaccinated against polio

• Around 70% of Russian schoolchildren have mental disorders and developmental abnormalities

• More than a quarter of the adult population of Russia suffers from obesity

• The average time of arrival of an ambulance in Moscow has dropped to 14 minutes

• In Moscow, plans to merge the two different ambulance services

• Are the most painful stages of Moscow’s medical reform behind?

• Half of Russians are satisfied with their lives

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Azerbaijan comes to 9,666,000 people

• The population of Georgia is 3,729,500 people

• The solution of its demographic problem remains a priority for Belarus

• The total fertility rate in Belarus is higher than in many European countries

• Ukrainians have begun renouncing divorce

• Minors in Georgia will be able to marry only with consent of the court

• A census may be conducted in all countries of the EAEC in 2020

• A second census begins in Transnistria

• New calculations of the World Bank have increased the number of poor in Moldova

• Citizens of Moldova will become even poorer next year

• Tajikistan has the highest rate of malnutrition in Central Asia

• Living conditions of Tbilisi residents have deteriorated over past year

• The question of raising the retirement age in Belarus will be decided only by taking into account people’s opinions

• Do Moldova’s young people and senior citizens support the idea of raising the retirement age?

• Moldovan government approves amendments to Law on Pensions

• Average old-age pension in Azerbaijan is approaching 200 manats

• Income of the population of Azerbaijan has grown by 6%

• Average salary in Ukraine is around 160 US dollars

• Average salary in Azerbaijan has exceeded 460 manats

• Subsidy for birth of child in Belarus has increased ten-fold over past 5 years

• Kazakhstan to change system of calculating social benefits

• Armenia still far from providing decent work for its citizens

• Half of all small and medium businesses in Kazakhstan are run by women

• Belarusian deputies ratify agreement on a common migration space with Russia

• In 2014, Ukrainians obtained more residence permits in the EU than people from any other country

• Ukrainians in the lead for illegal crossing of EU’s eastern borders

• Rada concerned about the fate of Ukrainian citizens working abroad

• Ukraine must address the issue of employment for immigrants

• Between 1991 and 2014 nearly one million ethnic Kazakhs returned to Kazakhstan

• In Belarus the number of registered HIV cases continues to grow

• Belarus to toughen anti-smoking measures

• The number of abortions in Kirgizia has increased by almost a quarter over past 10 years

• In Kirgizia, a reduction in the number of people recognized as disabled

Word news

• More than 12% of the inhabitants of Iceland were born outside the country

• Iceland among the world’s three leading countries in life expectancy

• Immigrants can help solve the problem of Europe’s aging population

• 18.7% of Lithuanians are over 65

• Nobel laureate in economics believes in reducing poverty in the world

• UN goal to achieve gender equality in the word by 2030

• Lithuanian Sejm rejects proposal to legalize civil partnerships between men and women

• In Australia, a calculation of the economic impact of legalizing gay marriage

• Indonesia imposes curfew for unmarried couples

• UK named country with best conditions for dying

• Will our children have to work until they’re 100?

• China urges BRICS countries to strengthen fight against illegal migration

• The problem of migration is global and concerns not only the EU

• Over 590 thousand migrants have arrived in Europe since the start of the year

• 800 million euros will be allocated by the EU until 2020 for handling the return of migrants

• Finland is the third most popular EU country for asylum seekers

• First migrants have been moved from Italy to Sweden as part of new EU plan

• Merkel rules out tax increases in Germany due to refugees

• European Commission intends to seek the talents of migrants

• Over 50 percent of people in Germany have become afraid of refugees

• Will the current migration be greatly surpassed by that due to climate change?

• Every year about 1.25 million people in the world die as a result of road accidents

• China named world’s largest tobacco consumer

• Latvia’s Saeima does not approve stricter limits on abortion

• WHO and UNAIDS issue new standards to improve care for teens

• Pregnant women with cancer can undergo chemotherapy without aborting

• A sedentary lifestyle does not increase the risk of premature death

• Happiness prolongs life

• Angry and aggressive men die earlier than nice guys

The newspapers write about…

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the impact of reducing public health funding

• “RBK” on the threat of an HIV epidemic in Russia

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the lack of money for treatment of AIDS patients

• “Izvestiya” on defibrillators in the subway and airports

• “Vedomosti” on industrial mortality in the USA

• “The Epoch Times” on organ transplants in China

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the “Mother and child” forum

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the maternity capital without indexation

• “Economy Times” on fertility in the North Caucasus

• “MOSLENTA” on marriage and divorce, fertility and pensions in Moscow

• “Vedomosti” on the benefits and dangers of migration

• “The Times” on the plan to deport illegal immigrants from the EU

• “InoSMI” on the “wetback” operation

• “Vedomosti” on the problem of refugees in Russia

• “Foreign Policy” on attracting talent to the US

• “Bloomberg” on the desire of Russians to emigrate to the USA

• “Ekho” on internal migration in Azerbaijan

• “Novaya gazeta” on the social problems of Russia

• “RBK” and “Novaya gazeta” on Russia’s pension problem

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on withholding 10% of Chinese workers’ salaries to help their parents

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on a conference on aging

• “RIA Novosti” on aging in China

• “FINANCE.UA” on the Nobel Prize in Economics

• “Vedomosti” on unemployment in Russia

• “Slon.ru” on cotton harvesting in Uzbekistan

• “Novye Izvestiya” on target places and job placement of university graduates

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on crime and corruption

• “Novaya gazeta” on domestic violence

• “ABC.es” on the genocide of native Americans

• “Open Democracy” on Syrian Armenians

• “Gazeta.ru” on the oppression of the Yezidis in ISIS

• “Vesti.md” on child witches in the Congo

• “The Conversation” on the influence of a father’s lifestyle on his child’s health

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on the UNODC’s attempt to legalize drugs

• “Slate.fr” on the Catholic Church and sex

• “Slon.ru” on a thinner city

• “Russkaya sluzhba RFI” on a third gender

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the settlement of Homo sapiens

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda-Saratov” on the 2015 micro-census

Read books and magazines

• World report on ageing and health

• World Urbanization Prospects The 2014 Revision

• The number of students, teachers, faculty staff and educational institutions of the Russian Federation (a forecast for 2020 and an assessment of trends up to 2030)

• Accession of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Eurasian Economic Union: the impact on migration

• Demographic Yearbook of Kazakhstan

• Through the pages of “Demographicheskoye obozrenie” (“Demographic Review”) and “Vestnik RAMN” (“Journal of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences”)

• Contents of “International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health”

Profession: researcher

• Demographic history and demographic theory: from description to explanation. International conference at the HSE Institute of Demography

• Demographic results of 2014. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• In memory of Vladimir Alexandrovich Yadov

• 60 years since the birth of Kalev Katus