Professional Education of Urban and Rural Women in the Regions of Russia

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	Regionalistica 2025 Volume 12 number 5 pages 42-60

Title of the article	Professional Education of Urban and Rural Women in the Regions of Russia
Pages	42-60
Author	Domnich Yegor Leonidovich candidate of sciences (economics), senior research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-1379-8053
Abstract	In the study, based on data from the All-Russian Population Censuses of 2002, 2010, and 2020–2021, estimates were obtained and an analysis of the spatial, temporal, age, and rural-urban distribution of the level of professional education of Russian women of reproductive age was performed. Stable patterns of the statistical distribution of the level of professional education among Russian women have been established, reproducible regardless of the age group. The level of professional education of urban women is higher than that of rural women, but the trends in its change are identical, which indicates a common economic behavior, while the level of professional education of rural women is characterized by greater regional differentiation. The spatial distribution of the level of professional education among Russian women is uneven. On average, the level of professional education decreases as it moves from the central and Volga regions to the southern, Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern regions. Also, the level of professional education decreases as it moves from regions with persistently low birth rates to regions with the highest birth rates. Age-specific factors determining the level of professional education among women have been identified. In the younger age groups (15–19 and 20–24 years old) Such specifics are mostly related to infrastructural restrictions on access to education, whereas in middle (25–29 and 30– 34 years old) and senior (35–39 and 40–44 years old), the economic benefits of education and the social situation in the region are of crucial importance. Based on the results of the study, hypotheses of future research have been formulated that require additional verification.
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DOI	110.14530/reg.2025.5.42
Keywords	urban population, rural population, reproductive age, higher education, college education, regions of Russia
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For citation	Domnich Y.L. Professional Education of Urban and Rural Women in the Regions of Russia. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2025. Vol. 12. No. 5. Pp. 42–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2025.5.42 (In Russian)
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