Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment: Update

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Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment Update
Women, including those engaged in formal or informal employment, contribute to their family’s 
economy through the performance of their traditional family, and household obligations, such 
as providing and maintaining the necessary levels of water, heat, food, and hygiene of other 
family members. the economic benefit derived from this contribution has not been calculated, 
and is not included in Gdp calculations.
Women also contribute to the family budget by tending small gardens and larger plots of 
land; growing fruits, vegetables, or seedlings; caring for livestock and poultry; producing dairy 
products for family consumption and for sale in the community; baking bread; sewing for 
the family and sometimes taking sewing orders from neighbors, etc.).
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In Organisation for 
economic Co-operation and development (OeCd) and non-OeCd countries, women spend 
as much time on nonmarket or unpaid activities as men spend on paid work.
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In many cases, labor out-migration allows people to earn a higher income than they could 
by working on a private garden plot or growing livestock. Women are very unlikely to leave 
their family for labor migration because the traditional way of life and women’s reproductive 
functions require their constant presence in the house.
In most cases, rural men retain access to and control over external and internal resources, but 
also depend on the market value of those resources are controlled by men.
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Rural women can 
usually control small amounts of the money they earn by selling milk and dairy products, eggs, 
and other agricultural products, but this amount has little relation to the time or labor necessary 
to produce the resource. Compared with men, women very often spend much more time and 
effort producing these items. For example, in the Kitab district, where part of the family income 
is derived from the sale of seedlings and fruits, women do most of the work involved in tending 
the garden and harvesting the crops.
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Cattle are a special type of property in rural areas, and livestock represents a key capital 
investment for most families. Resources generated by cattle cover everyday expenses and the 
cost of larger family events (e.g., weddings, traditional ceremonies and rituals, the construction 
of a new house for a married son, higher education for children). to cover larger family costs, 
livestock should be able to reproduce in sufficient quantities (at least 10–15 head of small 
ruminants and 2–3 large cattle). Family livestock are inherited from father to son. the right 
to dispose of cattle belongs to men, usually the eldest son in the household. When sons and 
daughters all marry, a father gives his eldest son some cattle to form his primary capital.
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Farmers and small businesses have limited entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, and they lack 
access to information about market opportunities, appropriate technologies, and financial 
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