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e-mail: mcgs@orc.ru
Zoya Khotkina created the "Database on Gender Studies in Russia
and NIS: Who is Who". This project was supported by the Ambassy of
Kingdom of Netherlands (Program of small-grants MATRA). The database is
allocated in Internet www.owl.ru/win/books/dbras_who_is_who.
It includes information about 250 schoolars, teachers and post-graduates
from 62 cities, who are working professionaly in the field of Gender Studies.
Besides information about gender researchers the data base contains more
than 1000 titles of books and articles published by them in Russia and
other countries. Currently Zoya Khotkina is leading a project "Gender
and Identity in Russian Informal Economic Sector" (2000–2002), supported
by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Institute. Gender discrimination,
sexual exploitation, violation of labor laws and criminalization of business
in a whole are in the focus of the analysis with the subsequent gender
identity crisis. Khotkina emphasizes both the global features of women’s
growth in informal employment and the specific Russian characters, like
extremly high involvement of the women with the higher educational level.
The main hypothesis of the project is that women’s opportunity to attain
professional employment appropriate to their level of education is tremendously
limited due to the economic crisis, unemployment and open discrimination.
The entry into the informal sector is forced, as it is often the sole
source of income or survival for women and their families. Being marginalized
like that, women cannot reconcile their new identity which is based on
instability, invisibility and risk.
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