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Current topic: Nuptiality and fertility without gender double standards

• Introduction

• The contradiction between fertility rates calculated for men and women as a problem of gender double standards

• Gender double standards in the study of nuptiality

• The method of marriage potentials as a way to avoid gender double standards

• Is the decrease in the number of registered marriages compensated by the growth in the number of unregistered partnerships?

• Conclusions

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Marriage in the EU-28, 1990-2015

• The number of marriages is declining, that of divorces - growing

• The share of first marriages is decreasing, that of second marriages – increasing

• The average age at first marriage is increasing

• In half of the EU-28 countries, total nuptiality for first marriages of men has fallen below 0.5

• Nuptiality continues to decline and "grow old"

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Cohabitation in Russia: an intermediate link or a legitimate institution

• The institution of the family in Russia: on the road to transformation

• Current problems of nuptiality and the marital status of the Russian population from the perspective of gender

Take care of women!

• Statement by the UNFPA on the US decision to discontinue financing

• The US administration’s attack on reproductive rights

In the vastness of Russia

• In Russia, life expectancy reaches 72 years for first time ever

• Medvedev gives instructions to increase life expectancy in Russia by 2025

• In Moscow, average life expectancy has reached 77 years

• Kudrin predicts a decline in Russia’s working age population

• In Russia, 13% of the population is below the poverty line

• Russians consider poor those with a monthly income below 15,506 rubles per person

• A point system will ensure the growth of pensions up to 40% of one’s salary

• The most common profession in Russia is that of driver

• Putin threatens to deprive migrants of Russian citizenship for extremism

• State Duma may expand the grounds for granting political asylum

• Russia’s migration policy will not get tougher

• St. Petersburg authorities propose to simplify entry of foreigners

• In 2016, foreigners were granted 30% fewer work permits than in 2015

• Government approves rules for keeping register of persons with HIV

• Smoking “killed” over 280,000 Russians in 2015

• Russians have begun to drink and smoke less

• In Russia, 5.5% of the population suffers from depression

• Golodets instructs Ministry of Health to “work on mistakes” in the treatment of strokes and tumors

• Russians prefer self-treatment for headaches and colds

• Incidence of influenza has been reduced by a factor of 10 over last 10 years

• According to Skvortsova, no one can be deprived of an OMI policy

• Skvortsova reports a decrease of nearly 60,000 in the number of abortions

• The number of free IVFs in 2017 will grow by almost 15,000

• State Duma allows to choose one’s form of sick leave

• Bill on telemedicine has been submitted to State Duma

• 1.5% increase on prices for essential drugs

• Medvedev advocates increasing the production of disposable medical products

World news

• The population of Ukraine decreased in 2017 by almost 43,000 people

• Due to a decline in Lithuania’s population, its parliament is being reduced

• By 2035 the number of newborn Muslims will exceed that of newborn Christians

• Retirement age in Latvia will rise to 65 years by 2025

• Earth’s oldest inhabitant dies in Italy at the age of 117

• In 2015, over 29% of Lithuanians lived on the edge of poverty

• China intends to build a city of 20 million people next to Beijing

• Over 58 million Chinese citizens live alone

• In Japan, same-sex couple allowed to adopt for first time ever

• 66% of Latvian entrepreneurs estimate the availability of labor as bad or very bad

• Lithuania intends to expand the range of persons entitled to dual citizenship

• European Parliament votes to abolish visas for Ukraine

• Italy will not leave the European Union

• Has the entry of Kirgizia into the EEU saved Kirgiz migrants from slavery?

• Migration policy in the center of pre-election fight in Germany

• Trump calls Obama’s migration policy weak

• The US is revising program for issuing work visas to foreigners

• Australia tightens requirements for main work visa

• Uzbekistan intends to attract foreign scientists

• Czech Republic refuses to accept refugees

• Refugees in Finland converting to Christianity in order to stay in the country

• British citizens forbidden to visit most of the North Caucasus

• Over this century, smoking will kill about a billion people

• Up to 70% of infant deaths in Kirgizia are caused by anemia

• In Armenia, the number of abortions associated with the sex of the fetus is decreasing

• Britain chooses “wedding capital”

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant” on the forms of marriage

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” and “Novaya Gazeta” on the attitude to “irresponsible women”

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the life expectancy of Russians

• “RBK” on optimizing the network of hospitals

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on transport medicine

• “Izvestiya” on the shortage of vital medicines

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the Russian experience of treating children with oncological diseases

• “Izvestiya” on reducing the number of alcoholics

• “Novye Izvestiya” on smoking in Russia and other countries

• “Aftenposten” on the alcoholic preferences of Europeans

• “Gazeta.ru” on why patriarchy slows down changes and harms health

• “Kommersant” on the political mobilization of young people

• “Kommersant” on key universities

• “Ogonyok” on pensioners and people of retirement age

• “RBK” on the Russian labor market

• “Kommersant” on economic activity and labor reserves

• “RBK” on informal employment in Russia

• “Vedomosti” on the exclusion of the self-employed from OMS

• “Gazeta.ru” on the working poor

• “Delfi.It” on the consequences of depopulation in Lithuania

• “Delfi.It” on emigration from Lithuania

• “Die Welt” on the attitude towards refugees in Germany

• “RBK” on the ineffectiveness of exams for migrants

• “RBK” on the cultural adaptation of migrants

• “American Thinker” on racial issues in the US

• “Suddeutsche Zeitung” on where terrorists come from

• “RBK” on the persecution of gays

• “Novye Izvestiya” on internet and teenage suicides

• „Fankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“ on the gender crisis

• “Kommersant Dengi” on new Moscow regions

Read books and magazines

• Theoretical approaches to the study of the family

• The international handbook of the demography of race and ethnicity

• Republic of Moldova profile of health and well-being

• Modern problems of transnationalism and migration research

• Modern problems of transnationalism and migration research. Volume 2.

• Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya” (“Medico-social expertise and rehabilitation”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Demographic digest

• Do employers value international study and internships? A comparative analysis of 31 countries

• The Accuracy of Migration Distance Measures

• BONUS: How long can one wait?

Profession: researcher

• Demography at the XVIII^th April International Scientific Conference of HSE

• Demographic and economic consequences of modern migration to European countries. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Natalya Mikhailovna Rimashevskaya has died