In The Age of Migration, De Hass notes that migration patterns differ across gender. For example, he notes that in cases such as in Moldova, most migrant men travel to Russia and other central Eurasian countries, while Moldovan women tend to travel to Italy to fill the demand for caseworkers (De Hass 129). In fact, […]
Women
Use of Female Labors as the Soviet Solution to Labor Shortage before 1970
The discussion in the lecture on using female labors as the soviet solution to labor shortage reminded me of some popular Chinese propaganda from the Great Leap Era, where a giant poster reads “women can hold up half of the sky”. It is known to a saying from Mao Zedong. This public poster has left […]