Putin has approved amnesty for female prisoners who are not repeat offenders, non-violent offenders or those with young children as a measure to boost the birth rate
I mean, not having women do higher education might bring up fertility rates – I don’t think that there’d a clear answer there. It’s true that fertility rates were higher during a period in time when women were in college less, but there were also a number of other societal changes that happened.
But if one doesn’t educate women, it runs the risk of cutting your GDP significantly, as it halves the size of the pool of people with higher education.
I mean, not having women do higher education might bring up fertility rates – I don’t think that there’d a clear answer there. It’s true that fertility rates were higher during a period in time when women were in college less, but there were also a number of other societal changes that happened.
But if one doesn’t educate women, it runs the risk of cutting your GDP significantly, as it halves the size of the pool of people with higher education.
I think your problem is that you took the Kremlin at its word.
This policy isn’t meant to do anything but further subjugate women, because right-wing authoritarians generally despise feeeeeeeeemales