The Burden of Bread-winning in the Bread Basket of Europe: Gender dimension of rural poverty, unemployment and labour migration in Ukraine

The years following the demise of the USSR in 1991 were marked by multiple transformations, a hallmark of which was a changing attitude towards the role and status of women in society, accompanied by democratization of gender relations in all domains of life. It is generally admitted that under the socialist era the basic elements of social welfare wer