Gender and Politics in Central Asia

Abstract

In addition to bringing together already existing numbers for the Central Asian countries, this data review aims to produce some new figures as well as to provide an overview of the developments over time with regard to gender and politics in Central Asia from independence until today.

The data was collected from October 2011- February 2012 by individual researchers in each of the five countries. Variation in terms of data availability and quality across the countries must be noted. Sources and methods used are listed in footnotes. The report is divided into four parts: gender in governments, parliaments and political parties and descriptions of the gender quotas in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Keywords: Central Asia, Politics