Natalia Bulchenko moderated a section at the III All-Russian Youth Scientific Conference "The Position of Women in Business in Russia and the World"

On November 24, 2025, at MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation), Natalia Vasilievna Bulchenko, a second-year postgraduate student at the Graduate School of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, a research intern at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, and a participant in the regular project group "Social Order in the Transforming Social Sphere: Macro- and Micro-Analysis," moderated a section at the III Youth All-Russian Scientific Conference "The Position of Women in Business in Russia and the World," which was organized by members of the MGIMO Student Club at the Department of World Economy "Women in Science."

The section "State Strategies for Supporting Women in Business" featured student presentations on women in Russian science and women's entrepreneurship in China and Latin America. Institutional pitfalls hindering the professional trajectories of highly educated women in Russia include human resource capacity (the collapse of scientific schools, the brain drain); reproductive labor and bureaucratization, which disproportionately fall on the shoulders of women in academia; and digitalization, which blocks tacit knowledge that is transmitted through personal mentoring and lively discussions. 

International reports highlighted the expansion of women's rights and the advancement of women in government and business, which are both a consequence and an indicator of democratization. Women in China and Latin America face similar challenges in business, and governments are proposing effective measures to support small women-owned businesses, drawing on best global practices with the support of international organizations.

The International Laboratory for Social Integration Research expresses its gratitude to Sofya Mikhailovna Rebrey, PhD in Economics and Associate Professor in the Department of World Economy at the Faculty of International Relations at MGIMO, for the invitation to the conference.