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The article “In the teeth of public opinion: Russian women-scientists in the late XVIII — early XIX c.” is dedicated to the history of Russian women-scientists of the period. Historical background was investigated as well as transformations in public opinion on the matter which took place at the turn of […]

Valkova O. А. In the teeth of public opinion: ...


The article compares the state measures and public initiatives undertaken in Russia and Kazakhstan with the aim of reducing the level of domestic violence against women and invol-ving the public in solving this problem. The authors basing their opinion on the data of socio-logical surveys of the population concluded that […]

Rostovskaya T. K., Kaliev Т. B., Zavyalova N. ...


The paper presents the results of both the theoretical and empirical research of social beliefs about motherhood. It is shown that social beliefs about motherhood are rather heterogeneous. They include some open content according to which motherhood is highly respected and emotionally positive social role, but there also are some […]

Miklyaeva A. V., Rumyantceva P. V. “#Sheisamother”: implicit ...



The development of the phenomenon of single-parenthood is provoked and accompa-nied by a variety of trends and social practices. The authors point out the following factors of single-parent families differentiation: the genesis and structure of single-parent families, the number and age of children, income, type of housing, the level of […]

Voronin G. L., Ianak A. L. Single-parent families: ...


The article is devoted to the development of the concept of assessing family life satis-faction based on gender approach. Proceeding from the research of domestic and foreign scientists, it was concluded that the definition of the level of family life satisfaction is determined by gender imbalance in the social situation […]

Pankratova E. V., Khasbulatova O. A. The concept ...


The article deals with the results of the research study of four adolescent risk behaviors as health determinants: smoking, alcohol consumption, irregular eating patterns and lack of physical activity. The multinomial logistic regression analysis based on the RLMS HSE 1994—2016 data using trichotomized self-reported health status as a dependent variable […]

Gazizullina P. G. The effects of risk behaviors on ...



The article presents the results of the sociological survey conducted in Saratov and re-veals the degree of gender stereotypes prevalence among youth. Gender stereotypes of provin-cial youth were identified and measured by means of such indicators as corresponding norms and values, feminine and masculine ideals, status-role dispositions of gender relations […]

Beginina I. A., Ivchenkov S. G., Shakhmatova N. ...


Author focuses on the features of “prescribed” scenarios of women’ aging in modern Russia. The main goal of the article is to move forward in understanding the sociology of aging and opportunities for social inclusion of older women. This seems to be of much lesser interest for scholars than problems […]

Grigorieva I. A. Elderly women: over the hill — ...




Pre-revolutionary Kabardino-Balkaria economically was extremely backward, agrarian territory, with feudal and patriarchal farm patterns. Like other peoples of the East, women here were powerless and oppressed in the family and society. They were without exception illiterate and economically dependent on men. Kalym, polygamy, marriage of minors — all this puts […]

Bechelov Z. Sh., Abazova M. V. Women of ...


In the last two decades the interest to the problem of peasant families and women’s roles in it (in regional studies) has increased; however, the topic of peasant women voluntarily leaving their families remains virtually unexplored. The peasantry was the bulwark of tradi-tional Russian culture. The reasons for filing a […]

Spichak А. V. The reasons for divorce of peasant ...


In the article the main stage of women’s education formation in the Tobolsk North (within the present borders of Khanty-Mansi and Yamal-Nenets autonomous regions) is considered since its inception at the turn of the 40—50s XIX c. until 1917. Two stages of its development are singled out, the chronological boundary […]

Tsys V. V., Tsys O. P. Women’s education ...



The article examines the general direction of some of Imam Shamil’s measures in the regulation of the family relations among mountaineers under the Caucasian War conditions. The analysis of the sources on the topic shows that the legislative activity of the Imam was due to several circumstances peculiar to the […]

Mutieva O. S. Regulation of the family relations among ...


The views of the populist/narodnik I. N. Kharlamov (1854—1887) on gender issues, presented in his essay “Woman in the Russian family” (1880), are discussed in the paper. The methodological foundations of I. N. Kharlamov’s approach to the designated problem are analyzed. Gender issue is disclosed through the confrontation of two […]

Kharitonov S. S. The gender issue in the system ...