Conscription
Federal law subjects male citizens aged 18 to 30 to conscription. Women may volunteer. The duty, summons, restrictions, and punishment for evasion remain male.
Russian reality
American examples are secondary on a Russian site. In Russia, the asymmetry is written into law, demography, and court practice. A man must defend the state, pays more often with his health for dangerous work, receives harsher punishment, and dies much younger.
Dangerous work
In Buryatia, all six people killed at work in 2024 were men. In Amur Oblast, men were 145 of 171 workplace casualties.
Life expectancy
In Samara Oblast in 2023, male life expectancy was 66.94 years and female life expectancy 78.01. In Novosibirsk Oblast the figures were 66.2 and 78.1.
Retirement
The transition schedule leads to retirement at 65 for men and 60 for women. Men retire later despite dying much earlier.
Criminal punishment
A study of five million Russian defendants found that women were less likely to receive imprisonment and received shorter sentences. Women cannot receive life imprisonment at all.
Name the bill
Section titled “Name the bill”Sex-specific conscription is sex discrimination. Later retirement despite shorter lives is sex discrimination. A ban on life imprisonment for one sex is a legal privilege for that sex.
Do not hide these differences behind tradition and protection. Equality that ends where the duty to die begins is not equality.