Lyudmila Ruzhanskaya, professor of the UrFU School of Economics and Management, told socialbites.ca that the current situation in the Russian labor market may be replaced by women, because the number of qualified employees, including men, is decreasing.
“If there is a shortage of qualified personnel, the demand for women’s labor will increase, their salaries will most likely increase and new opportunities for career development will also emerge. In addition, digitalization also plays a role: it reduces gender gaps and enables women to access types of jobs that they were previously unable to access, for example due to lower physical strength. “With workplace automation, this gap is reduced,” said the expert.
According to him, now in Russia there is a small difference between men and childless women – their salaries are comparable.
“On the one hand, this is a good thing, but from a demographic perspective it creates problems. Increasing wages for women puts a mine under the “traditional” family model; most likely this model will change in the future, but it is difficult to say how this will happen,” says Ruzhanskaya.
It was previously known that the Nobel Prize in Economics would be awarded in 2023. considered worthy Thanks to Claudia Goldin of Harvard University for her research on the key factors behind gender differences in the labor market. According to her research, there is still a large gender pay gap around the world. Russian labor market researchers believe that the wage gap between men and women in our country is determined by working conditions. And soon perhaps it will disappear altogether.