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Azerbaijan keen on ensuring women's active role

02 December 2015 [19:01] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Aynur Karimova

Women, which account for a bit more than 50 percent of the population in Azerbaijan, take an active role in the society.

Enhancing the role of women in the country's public and political life remains important task for the government, which tries to enforce the best mechanism to this end.

Being the first country in the East to grant the women the right to vote, Azerbaijan laid the fundamental basis of a democratic society, and gave an impetus to the expansion of socio-political and socio-cultural activities of women in the country.

Promoting women is of significant importance for ruling New Azerbaijan Party to raise the profile of the party, Ali Ahmadov, the Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the ruling party, believes.

Ahmadov said that one of the main challenges facing the party is to increase the participation of women in the party for achieving even greater success.

"I believe that a large number of women have been integrated into the social and political life of the country through the New Azerbaijan Party. Without the Council of Women and its activities, the New Azerbaijan Party would be unable to achieve this level of strong organization," he stressed.

In 1998, Azerbaijan established the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs.

The State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan reported that as of 2014, women accounted for 50.3 percent of the total population of the country, or 4,763,600 people.

Most of all working women in Azerbaijan are involved in the educational sphere.

Women account for 76.2 percent of the total number of teachers in secondary schools, 77.5 percent of the total number of teachers in vocational schools, 47.2 percent of the teachers in higher educational institutions. Also, 64.4 percent of the doctors working in the country are women.

Women also play a major role in the development of science. Some 49.2 percent of PhD candidates and 51.2 percent of all academics are women. Three academics and 11 associate members of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences are women.

The overall percentage of women in public service stands at 28 percent. Some 17 percent of entrepreneurs are also women.

Today 21 women represent the interest of their electors in the new-elect Azerbaijani Parliament of the fifth convocation.

Azerbaijan's most active women include Elmira Suleymanova, the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan, Bahar Muradova, one of the deputy chairmen of the Parliament, Agiya Nakhchivanli, the chairperson of the Parliament's committee on family, women and children affairs, Nijran Huseynova, the Chairperson of the State Committee for Family, Women, and Children's Affairs, Sevinj Hasanova, the Deputy Economy and Industry Minister.

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