Editing Mail-order bride (section)

===Eastern Europe===
Economic and social conditions for women in Russia and other [[Post-Soviet states]] are a motivational factor in finding foreign arrangements. The rise of Russian mail-order brides happened immediately after the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]].<ref name="Barry 1996 p. 155">{{cite book | last=Barry | first=K. | title=The Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women | publisher=NYU Press | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-8147-2336-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DyR8eUbJhIC&pg=PA155 | access-date=2023-10-14 | page=155}}</ref> In 2004 testimony before the United States Senate, Professor [[Donna M. Hughes|Donna Hughes]] said that two-thirds of Ukrainian women interviewed wanted to live abroad and this rose to 97% in the resort city of [[Yalta]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Donna M. |title=Human Trafficking: Mail-Order Bride Abuses |url=http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/testimony_senate_july04.pdf |website=University of Rhode Island |access-date=30 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704085428/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/testimony_senate_july04.pdf |archive-date=4 July 2012 |language=en |date=13 July 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Russia====
In 1999 it was reported that women in Russia earned 43 percent of what men did.<ref>Hughes, Donna M. "Commercial Use of the Internet for Sexual Exploitation: Pimps and Predators on the Internet, Globalizing the Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children, Part 1." Coalition Against the Trafficking in Women (1999). The University of Rhode Island. Mar. 1999. Web. Nov. 2010.</ref> Marriage is a substantial part of [[Russian culture]], with 30 years being the age at which a woman is considered an "[[old maid]]".<ref>Sullivan, Kevin. "Blissful Coexistence?; U.S. Men Seek Mail-Order Brides in Russia" ''The Washington Post''. 24 May 1994. Web. 12 November 2010.</ref>{{Update inline|date=March 2025|reason=The source was published over 30 years ago, but the sentence discusses the perspective as if it is current. Either the source or phrasing needs updating.}}