JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Russia, gender equality still a long way off” – AP/ Francesa Ebel, Irina Titova, Harriet Morris, Nataliya Vasilyeva
“While International Women’s Day is marked Friday across many countries with calls for gender equality, in Russia it is still a holiday largely focused on celebrating traditional gender roles. Women in Russia may hold prominent positions in the government – including the influential chief of the Central Bank and speaker of the upper chamber of parliament – but traditional gender roles still hold sway, and efforts to address problems like the gender pay gap, domestic violence and sexual harassment have hardly scratched the surface. … The Russian parliament in 2017 voted to decriminalize domestic violence that does not cause serious bodily harm – a move seen as a step back for a country where such violence is widespread. Some 12,000 women [reportedly] are killed as result of domestic violence in Russia every year ….”
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