Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment: Update

Secondary Education

In 2001–2013, the coverage of school-age children by secondary general education was consistently high (98%–99.8%) due to Uzbekistan’s migration to mandatory, universal, and free education.²²⁰ the Commission on Juvenile affairs under the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of public education strictly monitors the school enrollment, especially in the7–9 year age group.²²¹

enrollment in primary education (grades 1–4) was near gender parity in 2016–2017, at 1,152,285 girls (48.4%) and 1,230,174 boys (51.6%). additionally, the cumulative number of students in grades 1–9 (secondary general education) achieved near gender parity (48.4% girls vs. 51.6% boys.²²² at the institutional level, females dominate the staff of secondary general education and the gender imbalance remained almost the same (71.2% in 2014 vs. 70.7%) in 2016).²²³

the specificity of gender representation in the sub-sector relates to certain categories where female teachers constitute 71% of the teaching staff.²²⁴ this is consistent with findings that many women work in education, indicating a stable trend and bias that schoolteachers should be women.

Figure 4 shows the gender balance in teaching staff in secondary general, secondary special and tertiary education.²²⁵

²¹⁹ the press Service of the Ministry of preschool education reported that in 2018, the size of the payment for the maintenance of children in public kindergartens and separate rates have been established for 9-hour pre-school groups for the city of tashkent, regional centers and cities subordinate to the region. Review.uz. Online edition. In Uzbekistan the Fee for Pre-school Education Reduced http://www.review.uz/novosti-main/item/12887-v-uzbekistane-snizhena-plata-za- detskij-sad-v-selskoj-mestnosti
²²⁰ United Nations development programme and Center for economic Research under the CoM of Uzbekistan. 2015. The National Report on Millennium Development Goals. Uzbekistan. http://www.cer.uz/upload/iblock/ad0/mdg_ru_13_04.pdf
²²¹ UNICeF. Uzbekistan. 2015. Overview of the Situation in Children. http://www.unicef.uz/ru/overview/children-situation. php tashkent. Uzbekistan.
²²² Ministry of public education of Uzbekistan. 2018. the data presented by UNICeF. Uzbekistan
²²³ data provided by the State Committee on Statistics to adB in april 2018 for this CGa update.
²²⁴ there is a positive trend of engaging female teachers in physical training: 8,725 women work as physical education teachers, trainers, and instructors for various sports in secondary schools, vocational colleges, institutions of higher learning, and sports societies. UN Committee on the elimination of all Forms of discrimination against Women. 2014. The Fifth Periodic Report of States