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Table 11: Sex-Disaggregation of Female Staff in Higher Education (%)

year	Total		Management and Specialists		Technical Staff		Workers and Maintenance Staff
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
2014	48.6	51.4	45.2	54.8	57.9	42.1	51.8	48.2
2015	48.7	51.3	45.8	54.2	53.3	46.7	53.2	46.8
2016	47.8	52.2	44.6	55.4	54.2	45.8	52.8	47.2

Source: data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in September–October 2017 for this CGa update.

8. ADB Interventions

In 2019, adB will reengage in the education sector through the Skills development for Inclusive Growth project. adB’s Basic textbook development project for secondary schools (2004) focused on the quality and relevance of basic education by increasing the efficiency of

textbook production. the Second textbook development project (2009–2010) built on this by establishing efficient and sustainable provision of affordable school textbooks and other learning and teaching materials and allowed very poor students to borrow textbooks free of charge.^241
237 In 2018, the United Nations educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNeSCO) commissioned The Situation and Training Needs Analysis (STNA) in the framework of the Enhancing Girls’ and Women’s Right to Quality Education through Gender Sensitive Policy Making, Teacher Development and Pedagogy in South, Southeast and Central Asia Project, which plans to address some of the identified issues of gender asymmetry in higher education.
²³⁸ data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in September–October 2017 for this CGa update.
²³⁹ In some Commonwealth of Independent States countries, members of the academy of Sciences, high-level organization of scientists, are also called “academicians.” Candidate of Science is the first of the two postgraduate degrees in some Commonwealth of Independent States countries and in the Russian Federation. this degree corresponds to a ph.d. and allows claiming the title of associate professor. Obtaining this degree involves the preparation and writing of a thesis.
²⁴⁰ UN Committee on the elimination of all Forms of discrimination against Women, 2014. Fifth Periodic Report of States Parties. Uzbekistan. para 101.
²⁴¹ adB. 2012. Uzbekistan: Second Textbook Development Project. Validation Report. UZB: L2093. Independent evaluation department.
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the Basic textbook development project was accompanied by the gender expertise of several school textbooks that revealed a whole set of stereotypes. this practice has been quite successful. However, no similar attempts to apply gender expertise to school or university textbooks, either from donors or the government, have occurred.

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