Ethnic and religious aspects of gender behavior and reproductive directions of young adult females living in Transbaikal region: a 10-year trend

Abstract

The design of the research: two cross-sectional cohort studies with 10-year interval. The study included young adult females, 18-25 years of age: 209 women from Buryat population (in 2005 - 100, in 2015 - 109 persons) and 207 women from Russian population (in 2005 - 100, in 2015 -107 females). We found some positive trends in reproductive paradigm and gender behavior: relatively stable age of sexual debut, increasing role of health workers in young people reproductive education, a change of orientation in reproductive paradigm towards the model of multiple children family. The number of Orthodox believers significantly increased in Russian subpopulation.

Keywords

• gender behavior
• reproductive directions
• young adult females
• ethnic differences