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Azerbaijan - Children in Provinces
E. Malakhova
Children in provinces get worse
food, less access to education, and more exploitation. In our Azerbaijan
provinces, many parents believe that it is better for their children if they
only learn a simple job, rather than study for years in a secondary school. The
reason for this belief is the lack of conditions for school education in
Azerbaijan's villages...For many families, it is a luxury when their child goes
to school...Besides this, in the case where a child goes to school her/his family
loses some income, as the child stops working.
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Russia - Please Don't Make Me Have
An Inferiority Complex
Alena Pankratova
I thought I'd find some information
accordant to my thoughts in women's magazines, available in our small town. The
majority of them view a woman as a household good, assigned for men's pleasure
and comfort. The magazines include plenty of advice on housekeeping and a man's
seduction. They advise you to cook tasty food for the men, but to limit
yourself in eating...Glossy magazines, like Cosmopolitan, are designed for
young, successful, slim, and beautiful women living in a megapolis. The fashion
pages can be the best illustration to my statement.You cannot wear what they
suggest if you are in your 30's and live in a provincial town. Besides this, my
body is not ideal, and the fashion pages of glossy magazines seem to suggest
that I should start worrying about the way I look.
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Kyrgyzstan - Why The City When There
Is The Village?
Nurzhan Tulegabylova
As a city dweller, I have always
been interested in villages and their residents. The differences between young
women and men living in cities and villages are obvious. There are not only
visual and internal differences, but in the gender aspect as well.
Altynai 19, Bishkek (Female) -
"Village girls are always ready to sacrifice themselves in order to get
married, because they learn from early childhood that to get married is best.
They are also taught that they should submit to their husbands so that the
husbands do not leave them. Such women are more easily manipulated. Many city
men marry women like this, to have children and care for them
and their relatives."
Bakyt, 23, Bishkek (Male) -
"It's hard to find a good wife now. Those who live in cities are women of
great pretensions, while village women, even after they move to a city, need
time to change so you do not get embarrassed about them in public.
However, you could have a wife like that, just for the house, for your
relatives. But a lover should be a beautiful woman from the city."
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