The transition from a planned to a market economy: How are women faring?

It is almost two decades since market-oriented reform was launched in the Former Soviet Union (FSU), several years later than in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). One commonly acknowledged fact regarding gender is, as Paci (2002) put it, that transition1 has not been gender neutral. The underlying idea is that men and women may differ in their ability to handle the uncertainty inherent in a market economy.