Name:

Ms Gulzat Zhetibaeva

Ms Gulzat Zhetibaeva

Designation

Lecturer

Organization/Institution

International Ataturk-Alatoo University

Country

Kyrgyzstan

Short Biography

As lecturer in the International Ataturk-Alatoo University, Kyrgyzstan, Ms Gulzat Zhetibaeva conducts teaching courses on calculus, statistics, quantitative methods in management, linear algebra etc. She prepares the course syllabus for the students of the university. She has attended a number of conferences and seminars in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan etc. She has authored and co-authored several publications. Some of her publications are under print.

Presentation

Presentation:

National policy on achievement of gender equality in Kyrgyzstan

Mariam Edilova- Doctor of philosophical sciences, Professor.
Gulzat Zhetibaeva – post graduate student in political science, assistant.

Gender as a priority problem happens to be the focus of attention of most countries in the world. Thus, in the course of the Millenium Summit, that took place in September 2000, the world leaders with participation of representatives of Kyrgyz Republic confirmed the complex of Millenium goals of United Nations Organization, where one of the goals was to promote the gender equality and extent the rights and opportunities of women.

It is known, in the USSR, including Kyrgyzstan, feminism developed differently. The movement for women’s right was known as “woman’s issue”.   

As a result of democratic reforms which took place in Kyrgyzstan after obtaining its sovereignty (1991), consideration of the gender equality problems led to necessity of gender policy development in Kyrgyzstan.  

In this paper on the basis of statistical and empirical materials of several sociological researches, conducted by the Republic’s NGO “Woman Support Center” at financial support of number of International Organizations (UNDP, UNFP, UNICEF etc.), there considered problems of formation and development of gender policy in Kyrgyzstan. We should note that the authors of the paper had taken direct participation in above mentioned sociological researches, and Professor Mariam Edilova was the leader of the sociological group.

In the proposed article there will be revealed gender policy in Kyrgyzstan and given some recommendations on improvement of gender policy in Kyrgyzstan.   

Building a civic society in Kyrgyzstan

Mariam Edilova- Doctor of philosophical sciences, Professor.
Gulzat Zhetibaeva – post graduate student in political science, assistant.

The principles of civil society concept take important place in philosophical, sociological and political scientific ideas. In former socialistic countries, including Kyrgyzstan, there was not any independent civil and social life; it was monopolized by the state, by the government. After obtaining its sovereignty (1991) Kyrgyzstan began to realize democratic transformations and build civil society.  

In this paper on the basis of theoretical and empirical materials there will be considered problems of civil society building in Kyrgyzstan and the main criterions / indicators of institutionalization of civil society in Kyrgyzstan such as

• transition to market economy;
• “middle class” formation – a social basis of civil society, which is considered as a stabilization factor in society;
• reforms in political system through introduction of changes into the Main Law of the state- the Constitution;    
• increasing role of citizens in social and political life of society etc.

Also, there will be analyzed the process of formation of civil society institutes in Kyrgyzstan, the main of which is NGO (there are about 7 thousands, in other words by the number of NGO’s Kyrgyzstan is the leading country among Central Asian states).  

We should also note that the process of liberation citizens from subordination to strong authoritarian state power and formation of their habits to lead independent and individual life is proceeding very difficult.