Here are the results of analysis about attitudes toward gender issues in Azerbaijan. The upper left graph about women and work is particularly interesting. Women and men tend to agree on these items, except that men are more likely to believe that university education is more important for a boy than a girl and men…
I am incredibly lucky to have some amazing research collaborators and friends. For the project that I’m about to describe, I’m working with three women who rock my world. Two of them are also academic mommies of young kids (together we have 5 kids under age 6), two are non-native English speakers working in English…
Better late than never… Last week, Foreign Policy Magazine posted their annual list of people to follow on Twitter. Quickly the Twitter world noticed that it was void of women! So an alternative list, the #FPWomeratti was crowdsourced and formulated. And I was included! (And noted for my snarkiness!)
While CRRC is known for its Caucasus Barometer, in Winter 2011, a Central Asian survey was conducted to look at access to justice in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. (Here are the data files and methodological notes.) These analyses are only on the issues related to women in Central Asia. There is a lot more in…
With recent reports about sex ratio imbalance in Armenia, a quick analysis of the Caucasus Barometer brings insight into the state of women in Armenia. Armenians certainly prefer boys, especially in rural areas. But even in regional cities and Yerevan, nearly half of Armenians state a preference for a boy. Moreover, Armenians (and Azerbaijanis and…