Georgians are social, women get out less than men do, and other unsurprising findings
2011 Caucasus Barometer
FWIW, Armenia doesn’t have a chaixana/birja culture.
This was going to be the end of this blog post, but then I figured that I’d put a more interesting spin on it and look at gender as well. I noted some of the more interesting items, but please come to your own conclusions here.
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Ask and you shall receive! Here are breakdowns by region and gender and country for each of these activities. Certainly in the regions there are less opportunities to do some of these things because of availability (there is no discotech in my village!), lifestyle (I’m a farmer and need to get up early, so I can’t go to the discotech! or I’m a farmer and I’m too busy to hang out with friends during the harvesting season!), or cultural norms (maybe it isn’t okay for a village woman to do some of this stuff, while it would be more acceptable for a capital city woman).
This is a good example where women in regional cities and rural areas are just not going out to eat, with little difference between the three countries.
Here’s another interesting case – rural women in all three countries aren’t going out very often, although certainly in Azerbaijan it is less. But also note that few Azerbaijani rural men are going out either.
Very interesting profiles. I lived in Egypt for nine years and I would guess that their profile would be similar to that of Azerbaijanis. After leaving Egypt, I lived in Eastern Europe (Hungary) for five years during the communist era and five years during the post-communist era. I was very much impressed by the social life there and the equality between men and women.