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The Russian Independent Institute of Social and National Problems
A WOMAN OF NEW RUSSIA: WHAT IS SHE LIKE? WHAT IS HER LIFE LIKE? WHAT ARE THE GOALS SHE IS GAINING?
Part 2
The research let us find out not only the orientations of the Russian women towards particular life-goals and follow the dynamics of the goals regarding the age of the interviewed but also distinguish 4 types of the Russian women according to their ambitions. These types can be qualified in following way: "house-wives", "hard-workers", "careerists" and "dispirited". As shows our research, every of these types is characterized not by opposite life goals, though by diversity of the goals.
The "house-wives" type focuses on children's up-bringing, having reliable friends, an honest life, respect of the others.
"Hard-workers" having the same life-goals as their ambitions also focus on interesting and prestigious job, on the opportunity to do work according to the interests, on good education.
"Careerists" (there is no negative hint in the name of the type, it just shows that the essential ambition of the women of this type is to make a career) have the largest spectrum of life-goals. This type consists of the women who having life-goals of the previous types also already run or are certain that they shall run their own business, make a career, travel all over the world, join the right stratum of the society.
At last, the forth type which we called "dispirited" includes the women who are very close to the "house-wives" regarding their life-goals, but think that they will not be able to fulfill the ambitions which are easy to fulfill for the latter type, first of all to create a happy family, to bring up happy children, etc.
Quantitive distribution of the types described above among Russian women from 17 to 50 is following (see scheme 1):
Scheme 1
Types of Russian women regarding there life-goals,%.
It should be stressed that the common opinion saying that job- and career-oriented women are less interested in family appeared to be false. It was found out, the women of all types consider a family to be very essential side of life. As for the career- and job-oriented women, 95% of them include the ambition to create a happy family in their life-goals.
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