Armenian history has a strong influence on its development today especially for the evolving role of women in their society. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Armenia found itself, along with several other neighboring nations in the droves of Russian occupation until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Whether under the thumb of Turkey […]
Author: Kristie
Defining Expectations of Women in Armenia
Perhaps moving forward a better balance between family and work may be reached. This is the concluding sentence from my previous blog and in this entry my focus turns to gender roles and equality in three facets of Armenian society: education, migration and family. These pillars define the place of women and in are in […]
Room for Growth: The Place of Armenian Women within a Patriarchal Society
The Workforce The struggle for gender equality is a familiar foe of Armenian women. Since the fall of the soviet Union in 1991 when the female unemployment rate was a mere 2.19%, women in Armenia have struggled to maintain their place in the workforce (World Bank, 1991). Let’s talk more numbers. Armenia first […]
Does Xenophobia have a Face?
In The Age of Migration De Haas refers racism and xenophobia interchangeably; previously, I associated xenophobia only with the fear of foreign people or culture (De Haas 2020). According to The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy however, my assessment was incomplete. The book defines xenophobia as “an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, […]
Guestworkers Needed: A Comparative Look at Post World War II Germans at Home & Abroad
In The Age of Migration, Hein De Haas takes the reader on a journey into the Guestworker Program in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) that arose in the 1950s. This allowed the FRG to recruit millions of foreign workers over two decades to accommodate the labor needed due to industrial expansion and low birth […]