Have babies for Russia: Putin presses women to embrace patriotism over feminism | Women in Russia are being told to forgo education and careers to prioritize having many children, even as Putin’s war in Ukraine drains men from the workforce
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When you post weirdo pro-natalist nonsense, you post with Putin.
> Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional family values — a campaign that is eroding equal rights and protections, human rights advocates and Russian feminists say.
> “Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, and maybe even more,” Putin declared to an audience of ultraconservative religious and political figures who had convened in the State Kremlin Palace in November. “We should preserve and revive these wonderful traditions.”
> Putin, who spoke by video link from his office in Sochi in southern Russia, appeared on a massive screen flanked by two images of the “Icon of the Savior, Made-Without-Hands,” suggesting godlike status as he urged Russian women to give birth to very large families. Russian officials, echoing their leader, are telling women to start young — at 18.
> As Putin seeks to restore Russia’s status as a superpower, his revanchist policies are rolling back women’s rights, Russian feminists say, with idealized roles fitted to the imperial era that predated communism. Women are being told to forgo education and careers to prioritize child-rearing, even as the war in Ukraine drains men from the workforce, creating critical labor shortages.
!ping RUS&FEMINISTS
So basically asking women to help fix his mistake.
Come on ladies I need more cannon fodder
Putin must have stock in the Russian mail order bride business because this seems like a plot to make it more appealing to Russian women.
As backward as this kind of strategy is, it’ll be interesting to watch if it has any impact, and if it does, it would be the first successful birth rate regeneration programme to actually work. And don’t delude yourselves; first world nations staring 1.3 BR’s in the face will be paying attention and taking notes, no matter how much you convince yourself they value liberality.
Is he expecting the Ukraine war to go on for 18 more years? Or 14 more years with some vigorous new child-draft laws?
Watching a country devolve into the fascist state always makes you wonder if the people living there don’t realize the cruel irony of what is happening.
What an attractive option for a young Russian woman – have a bunch of kids so that they can be sent to be cannon fodder. How can they resist
Would anyone be surprised if they just en-masse migrate to China or somewhere?
Didn’t a “man” in Germany do that 90 years ago? What was his name again??
Funny how everyone is barking up the wrong tree about birth rates. Even if women were forced to leave jobs and get married, it would likely cause little increase in birth rates, [seeing how it is also dropping in countries with low female labor participation and young marriage ages](https://medium.com/@akhivae/whats-causing-low-fertility-rates-30c568b16085).
This policy sounds strikingly familiar…
“Drains men”, you say????
We’re going to be at war for the next thirty years ladies