What's the purpose of this? It sounds like some Russian reality show...
Well, to accurately simulate a Lunar mission, they should be in a PTK-L with perhaps an additional small module. The Mars-500 simulator is much too large. There should also be at least one pilot-cosmonaut onboard.
So that is all they can do is simulations?
One study found men scored higher than women on competitiveness, but lower on expressivity and achievement striving [7]. Another study suggested greater female extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Females scored high on these scales and lower on neuroticism and openness than the male comparison group. These personality traits are highly adaptive for military pilots.
This just got tweeted by @UN_Women, with its 750,000 followers.
My impression is that Russian attitudes towards women & gender equality are well outside of the OECD norm of 2015.
I believe it was during the testimony leading to Constellation that all women long duration missions would be good because they require less water per person. Wondered at the time if it was a gender thing or body mass thing. Would seem likely that a 150 lb person would need less than a 200 lb person regardless of gender.
Well, to accurately simulate a Lunar mission, they should be in a PTK-L with perhaps an additional small module. The Mars-500 simulator is much too large. There should also be at least one pilot-cosmonaut onboard.A minor nitpick is that the transliteration of Луна-2015 is Luna-2015. Nobody calls the Soviet Lunar probes Moon. They are called Luna.
What are the odds this is legitimate interest in the performance of Russian crews, rather than some unrelated and unknown internal motivation?
My impression is that Russian attitudes towards women & gender equality are well outside of the OECD norm of 2015. That the Soviet/Russian space program of the past gave up on using women as a regular part of the cosmonaut corps even while the Party was committed to an extreme position in favor of gender equality. Their society has been getting progressively more conservative under Putin, and Putin's conservative nationalist ideas have become progressively more influential as Russia crosses the line from authoritarian democracy to dictatorship. Feminists of late have aligned themselves with opposition movements, and those in power with the macho, paternalistic streak in Russian culture - the Russian Orthodox Church calls feminism a 'mortal sin', and says that their dangerous behavior threatens to destroy the motherland.
Last time the idea of mixed-gender crews in Russian simulators made headlines, this happened: http://www.jamesoberg.com/04142000assualt_rus.html
How about sending more female cosmonauts to the ISS instead?