Gender in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan - results of a survey of households
by Eckhard Dittrich; Heiko Schrader
International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies (IJGSDS), Vol. 2, No. 4, 2018

Abstract: The authors investigated households in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and within them, gender relations as a contested terrain between tradition, post-soviet labour policy, modernisations, and the resurgence of religiousness. Empirically, we studied gender relations mainly through in-depth explorations of how the household members take decisions, resolve conflicts and divide labour. An outcome of the study is that - in spite of modernisation of life on the macro level of the societies, strong traditional believes are maintained, but negotiations about assets, positions and decisions occur. Thus, some households display more egalitarian gender relations by often maintaining a patriarchal façade on the front-stage but replacing it by democratic regulations on the backstage

Online publication date: Tue, 24-Jul-2018

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