Notions of “empowered women,” promoted by NGOs, economists, and feminists beginning
in the 1970s, do not necessitate a countervailing notion of “failed patriarchs.” However, our …

The major trends in family structures and their shifts across the industrialized world over the
past decades are well known: fertility rates have declined below the level sufficient for the …

This study analyses the effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 on the future of
Ukraine's population. We conduct a series of population projections with different …

After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education
systems in preparing students for the" real world" changed. Though young people were …

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers is a global ethnography of Ukrainian transnational
migration. Gendered migrant subjectivities are a key site for understanding the production of …

This article examines the experiences of Canadian and Ukrainian educators who
collaborated on a 5-year Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded …

While there is relatively little social science analysis of the impact of emigration 2 on the
sending country, the popular stories we tell about the effects of emigration on the sending …

This study assesses the decline in second birth rates for men and women across different
skill levels in transitional Russia. Changes within educational groups and occupational …

BACKGROUND Recent research on fertility in industrialized countries focuses primarily on
delayed childbearing, despite the facts that large numbers of women continue to enter …

Declining marriage and fertility rates following the collapse of state socialism have been the
subject of numerous studies in Central and Eastern Europe. More recent literature has …