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Is it easy for an Uzbek woman to make a career?

Akhmedova M.A.

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Nowadays ensuring the employment of women and gender equality are one of the urgent problems worldwide. Women in Uzbekistan face certain barriers to build up their career. Hence, this paper aims to evaluate the possible factors that hinder female career growth in Uzbekistan. We conducted survey in order to reveal which impediments are hindering women’s career growth in Uzbekistan. The first survey covered 300 women in the age of 16-65 and from various professional spheres. Moreover, we conducted Probit econometric analysis using another survey answers to reveal the probability of female labor participation. According to the results of empirical analysis, it was revealed that the probability of a woman to work or not to work is primarily influenced by their marital status. Moreover, we found that besides the working hours of 7-8 in a day, women spend additional 4 hours on house chores, which is considered as unpaid labor. In general, it was revealed that an Uzbek woman works on average 12 hours per day. The main limitation of this study was that the conducted survey did not cover more than 300 respondents. Furthermore, as this paper implemented only Probit model, it’s suggested to use more advanced methods. The area of women’s career, in particular career’s growth is not well researched in Uzbekistan, although this topic is widely discussed worldwide. This paper tried to reflect the difficult path of women towards career growth in Uzbekistan. We tried to evaluate the main obstacles for women in building up career.

Kalit so'zlar:

gender equality; female career growth; marital status; unpaid labor; Probit model; Uzbekistan.

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