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 Kyrgyz woman | |
| General Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Maternal mortality (per 100,000) | 60(2017) |
| Women in parliament | 16,5% (2020) |
| Women over 25 with secondary education | 81.0% (2010) |
| Women in labour force | 57% (2022) [1] |
| Gender Inequality Index[2] | |
| Value | 0.370 (2021) |
| Rank | 87th out of 191 |
| Global Gender Gap Index[3] | |
| Value | 0.700 (2022) |
| Rank | 86th out of 146 |
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Women in Kyrgyzstan traditionally had assigned roles, although only the religious elite sequestered women as was done in other Muslim societies.[4] Rural inhabitants continue the traditional Siberian tribal practice of bride kidnapping (abducting women and girls for forced marriage). Bride kidnapping, known as ala kachuu (to take and flee), girls as young as 12 years old are kidnapped for forced marriage, by being captured and carried away by groups of men or even relatives who, through violence or deception, take the girl to the abductor's family who forces and coerces the young woman to accept the illegal marriage. In most cases, the young woman is raped immediately in the name of marriage.
Although the practice is illegal in Kyrgyzstan, bride kidnappers are rarely prosecuted. This reluctance to enforce the code is in part caused by the corrupt legal system in Kyrgyzstan where many villages are de facto ruled by councils of elders and aqsaqal courts following customary law, away from the eyes of the state legal system.
- ^ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.ACTI.FE.ZS
- ^ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ Olcott, Martha Brill. "The Role of Women". Kyrgyzstan country study (Glenn E. Curtis, editor). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (March 1996). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.