Over half of civil servants’ positions occupied by women in Kazakhstan
The Institute of Social Studies and Gender Research report that
women hold 55 percent of civil servants' positions in
Kazakhstan.
"We have three female ministers and 260 women are mayors of urban,
rural and village districts," Expert of the Kazakh National
Commission for Women, Family and Demographic Policy Zamza Kodar
said.
According to Kodar, there has been a two-and-a-half fold increase
in the number of women holding positions in the Majilis (lower
house) of Kazakhstan's Parliament. The percentage of female
deputies in the Majilis is 24 percent - a similar or even higher
figure than in many Western European countries.
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