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Title: Women in Power in Kyrgyzstan. An analysis of the Causes of Women's Underrepresentation
Authors: Asylbekova, Kaukhar
Keywords: Kyrgyzstan
women
election
government
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Department of International and Comparative Politics
Abstract: During the last decade, the issue of women in politics is actual. Political practice of feminist movement led not only to sharp increase of activity of women in all spheres of public life, but also changed a modern policy. Feminist groups resulted new confident generation of females who can defend their own interests and rights and be an individual in the first place. In the last centuries emergence of feminism as ideology as the progressive phenomenon lead to new status of women. Now females carries out significant status and have the same rights just like men: the right to vote, to self-realize and to get education. However, above these basic rights the women gained privilege to be in government.1 Women proved that global problems can be solved not only by objective and judicious men but also by women. Unfortunately, there are still many people who believe that politics and women are incompatible, despite that female leaders prove the opposite. At current time, women even often become responsible both for themselves, for family and the most important for country. In many countries right now and even in our history we can observe female politicians that have done for their countries much more that some men politicians: Angela Merkel, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner(President of Argentina),Dilma Rousseff (Brazilian president), Benazir Bhutto(11thprime minister of Pakistan), Kurmanjan Datka, Roza Otunbaeva. This all proves us potential of human being should not depend on sex. During making important decisions and forming our government main factors should be responsibility, education, previous experiences etc, but not gender distinctions.2 In the 21 first century there are many attempts to eliminate this tendency but in some countries including Kyrgyzstan the problem of lack of women in power still takes place, even though the country has accepted CEDAW convention and signed a Decree on the ways of improvement gender policy.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2327
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