Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment: Update

Progress of the World’s Women Report 
2015-2016
. New York. 19 July. p. 259.
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World Bank. 2016. 
Systematic Country Diagnostic for Uzbekistan.
 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/
en/304791468184434621/Uzbekistan-Systematic-country-diagnostic
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data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in September–October 2017 for this CGa update.

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Mainstreaming Gender in ADB Operations, by Sector
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and the labor market (Section IIIa, Section IIIe, and Section IIIG). However, additional support 
will be required for future surveys to identify more root causes.
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at the institutional level, women’s representation is quite high (48.6%),
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including 8 women 
members of the academy of Sciences, 310 doctors of science (16%), and 3,025 candidates 
for science degrees (33%).
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there are 2 female rectors at higher learning institutions, 20 vice 
rectors, 34 faculty deans, and 390 department chairs.
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the high ratio of women in the management and specialists segment is mostly due to the high 
representation of female teachers (over 44%), a tendency that is likely to decrease (table 11). 
the causes of this tendency require further exploration.
Table 11: Sex-Disaggregation of Female Staff in Higher Education 
(%)
year
Total
Management and 
Specialists
Technical Staff
Workers and 
Maintenance Staff
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
2014
48.6
51.4
45.2
54.8
57.9
42.1
51.8
48.2
2015
48.7
51.3
45.8
54.2
53.3
46.7
53.2
46.8
2016
47.8
52.2
44.6
55.4
54.2
45.8
52.8
47.2
Source: data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in September–October 2017 for this CGa update. 
8. ADB Interventions
In 2019, adB will reengage in the education sector through the Skills development for 
Inclusive Growth project. adB’s Basic textbook development project for secondary schools 
(2004) focused on the quality and relevance of basic education by increasing the efficiency of 
textbook production. the Second textbook development project (2009–2010) built on this by 
establishing efficient and sustainable provision of affordable school textbooks and other learning 
and teaching materials and allowed very poor students to borrow textbooks free of charge.
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In 2018, the United Nations
educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNeSCO) commissioned 
The Situation 
and Training Needs Analysis (STNA)
in the framework of the 
Enhancing Girls’ and Women’s Right to Quality Education 
through Gender Sensitive Policy Making, Teacher Development and Pedagogy in South, Southeast and Central Asia
Project,
which plans to address some of the identified issues of gender asymmetry in higher education.
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data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in September–October 2017 for this CGa update.
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In some Commonwealth of Independent States countries, members of the academy of Sciences, high-level 
organization of scientists, are also called “academicians.” Candidate of Science is the first of the two postgraduate 
degrees in some Commonwealth of Independent States countries and in the Russian Federation. this degree 
corresponds to a ph.d. and allows claiming the title of associate professor. Obtaining this degree involves the 
preparation and writing of a thesis.
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UN Committee on the elimination of all Forms of discrimination against Women, 2014.