KYRGYZSTAN

I.
II. Gender stratification in kyrgyz politics Gender quota

III: Reasons of women's less participation in politics

I. Gender stratification

Society's unequal distribution of power, wealth and privileges between the women and men

The third goal of the Millennium Development Goal

Kurmanjan Datka, kyrgyz stateswoman,

II. Gender stratification in kyrgyz politics

42 % of the economically active population

Earn only 67% of the wages men do Before 2005 no women representation in the Parliament Women's movement

Today almost 26 % of the Parliament of

III. Gender quota

Gender

quota;

Article

60

of

the

Constitutional Law on Elections

30 % quota for women representation in the parliament

Woman president, Roza Otunbaeva (July 2010-December 2012)

Kyrgyzstan' s ex-president & me

III. Gender quota; Women in politics

Woman vice Prime minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice, Minister of Labor and Social Development

Woman Minister of Education and Science, and the Chair of State Committee on Migration and Employment

The the heads of Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, National Academy of Science and

IV. Reasons of women's less participation in politics

Almost 65% of population live in the rural

areas

Poverty, Family or Career? Politics is not for women No interactive connections between NGOs and the government

IRAN

Women in politics (pre and post revolution)

Pre Revolution

Secular upper and middle classes Idle Society in traditional classes women confined to home cleaning and upbringing the children Men worked in public sphere, the fields, factories, bazaars, and offices

Pre revolution Upper classes

In big cities such as Tehran westernizing the country through discouraging the veiling of women and encouraging the mixed social activities

The government encouraged women to get as much education as possible and to participate in the labor force at all levels.

Pre Revolution

1932, Iranian women held a meeting of the Oriental Feminine Congress in Tehran at which they called for the right of women to vote, compulsory education for both boys and girls, equal salaries for men and women

1963 women were given the right to vote

Post revolution

Islamic revolution 1979 In 1996 fourteen women were elected to the Islamic Consultative Assembly (The Iranian Parliament )

In 2003, Iran's first woman judge won Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in promoting human rights. ( she was

Politics and women after the revolution

27.1% of the ministers in government are women After Ahmadinejad's re-election in 2009, the first female minister was appointed In 2009 Fatemeh Bodaghi became Vice President for Legal Affairs and a top advisor to President Mahmoud

Women in politics; Sweden, Kyrgyzstan, Iran

50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Sweden Kyrgyzstan Iran Women in politics