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 […]
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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 […]
Migration as opportunity
Marianne Kamp Armenia has not been blessed with either prosperity or population growth since it became an independent country with the collapse of the USSR in 1991. This graph shows that at the beginning of independence, Armenia’s population was about 3.5 million, and as of 2020, it is 2.6 million. Many of these migrants have […]