Pay Advantage of Russian Men over Russian Women has Increased since Putin’s War in Ukraine Began, ‘Vyorstka’ Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Jan. 4 – In almost all spheres, Russian men have been paid more than Russian women for the same work; but after this gender imbalance had narrowed in recent decades, it has risen again since the start of Vladimir Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine, the Vyorstka news agency reports on the basis of Russian government statistics.
    It analysis of Rosstat figures shows that this is not just an artefact of the Russian government’s bonuses to men who join the military but also to changes in the Russian economy and to the aggressive masculinity of the Putin regime that places more value on the work of men than on that of women (verstka.media/razryv-mezhdu-zarplatami-muzhchin-i-zhenshhin-na-rukovodyashhih-dolzhnostyah-v-rossii-dostig-491-eto-rekord-s-2005-goda).
    Among the many example Vyorstka gives, the following is particularly striking in that regard: Russian women occupying managerial and leadership positions now make only 45 percent of what men in those positions do. In 2021, women received 47 percent of what men were paid.
    Vyorstka doesn’t speculate about the broader implications of this trend, but it may help to explain why Russian women are less supportive of both Putin and Putin’s war.