| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : EE, RUCIS, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia | | | | TOPICS : politics, social, employment, human rights, legislation, poverty, property, welfare, health, nationality, regional | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : Some of the gains made under the Soviet regime to integrate the 'women of the East' -- the Caucasus and Central Asia -- into the labour force and public life have lost ground thanks to resurgent patriarchal value |
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