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December issue of Development and Transition released

12 December 2007 08:37 (UTC +04:00)

The post-communist transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States has seen reductions in womenâ€™s wages and employment rates relative to menâ€™s, as well as declines in political representation and well-being, according to the December issue of Development and Transition, which is being released today, APA reports.
The vast majority of women have suffered economic setbacks in the form of deepening poverty and unemployment, as well as growing economic insecurity and exploitation, PatrÃcia Eszter Margit writes in the lead article of Development and Transition, a joint publication of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the London School of Economics.
Ben Slay, Director of the UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre, places the unfavourable male mortality trend in a broader demographic context. Slay points out that the trend in Russia is not shared by most other countries in the region, and it began well before the Soviet collapse.
â€˜Because many of Russiaâ€™s disturbing mortality trends began decades before the USSR collapse, they should not be ascribed solely to the post-Soviet transitionâ€™, writes Slay. /APA/