KEY PRIORITIES TO OVERCOME THE UNEQUAL ACCESS OF RURAL WOMEN TO RESOURCES IN TAJIKISTAN

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Published Nov 24, 2017

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Tatiana Bozrikova
Director of the non-governmental research centre “New Panorama”.

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In 2015, the permanent population of the Republic of Tajikistan was 8 352 000 people. The proportion of men was 50.6 percent (4 224 000 people) of the total population, and the proportion of women was 49.4 percent (4 127 000 people). Up to 73.5 percent of the total population lives in rural areas.1 The average age of the population is 25.7 years.2 According to the available statistical data, the proportion of the population below working age accounts for 34.6 percent of the total population; the working age population for 60.5 percent; and those above working age for 4.9 percent. The age structure of the rural population is similar to this.3 The agricultural sector is the main employer in the country: 65.5 percent of the population is engaged in agricultural employment.4 The share of people employed in agriculture, hunting and forestry represents 90.6 percent of the population employed in the real sector.

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Vol 60 No 1 (2017): INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL
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Author Biography

Tatiana Bozrikova, Director of the non-governmental research centre “New Panorama”.

PhD in Philosophy. She is an expert on gender and development, a sociologist and deputy Director of the non-governmental research centre “New Panorama”. Tatiana was a former advisor to the President of the Republic of Tajikistan on Social Development and Public Relations (for seven years until 2004) and is a founder and former president (until 2014) of the Coalition of NGOs “From Legal Equality - To Actual Equality”. She is the author of more than sixty publications, analytical reports and research studies on gender issues. She is also one of the main developers of the national long- and medium-term strategies and state programmes on gender and development in Tajikistan. Tatiana is the head of expert groups on gender mainstreaming in land and agrarian legislation, as well as on the preparation of alternative reports on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. She is also a member of the Advisory Council on Civil Society of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).