Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

6.2. GENDER ASPECTS OF BUSINESS

Number of business persons who are members of the Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, by region, as of 1 January 2006

		Total, in persons			As a percentage of the total			Distribution by sex, as a percentage
	Women		Men	Women		Men	Women		Men
Republic of Uzbekistan	1,477		4,912	100.0		100.0	23.1		76.9
Republic of Karakalpakstan	22		114	1.5		2.3	16.2		83.8
Oblasts:
Andijan	26		196	1.8		4.0	11.7		88.3
Bukhara	138		506	9.3		10.3	21.4		78.6
Djizak	71		231	4.8		4.7	23.5		76.5
Kashka-Darya	494		1,306	33.4		26.6	27.4		72.6
Navoi	107		411	7.2		8.4	20.7		79.3
Namangan	220		360	14.9		7.3	37.9		62.1
Samarkand	43		400	2.9		8.1	9.7		90.3
Surkhan-Darya	40		207	2.7		4.2	16.2		83.8
Syr-Darya	3		12	0.2		0.2	20.0		80.0
Tashkent	110		372	7.4		7.6	22.8		77.2
Fergana	76		400	5.1		8.1	16.0		84.0
Khorezm	82		222	5.6		4.5	27.0		73.0
City of Tashkent	45		175	3.0		3.6	20.5		79.5

1 ^ Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

2  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

3  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

4  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

5  UNICEF and the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 2007. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey of Uzbekistan 2006 , Final Report. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: UNICEF.

6  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

7  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

8  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

9  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

10  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

11  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

12  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

13  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

14  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

15  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

16  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

17  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

18  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

19  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

20  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

21  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

22  Criminal cases involving crimes that do not represent a great danger to society and involving other less serious crimes are, under Article 13 of the Republic of Uzbekistan Criminal Procedure Code, heard by an individual judge.

23  Data of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

24  Data of the Department for the Enforcement of Judicial Decisions and Logistics and Financial Support of Judicial Activities in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

25  Gender analysis of the Family Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan was performed in 2007 by the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights and the Centre for the Support of Civil Initiatives, with the support of the Asian Development Bank under the framework of the project “Improvement of the National Mechanism for Gender and Development in Uzbekistan”

26  See Annex No. 2.

27  See Annex No. 3.

28  The gender analysis of the Republic of Uzbekistan Labour Code was performed in 2007 by the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights and the Centre for the Support of Civil Initiatives, with the support of the Asian Development Bank under the framework of the project “Improvement of the National Mechanism for Gender and Development in Uzbekistan”

29  See Annex No. 4.

30  See Annex No. 5.

31  See Annex No. 6.

32  The annexes to this report were taken from the statistical digest Women and Men of Uzbekistan, which was released by the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Tashkent, 2007), as well as were provided by the State Statistics Committee, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, the Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan and the Society of the Disabled.

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