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2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Ranking Georgia’s political parties by gender balance in the 2024 elections

by Shota Kincha

•5 min read

Georgia’s parliamentary elections on 26 October, unlike the previous vote, will be held without any gender quotas. As women’s representation in Georgian politics remains an issue, we have examined the electoral lists of all the major parties and groupings and ranked them based on how many women they included — and how highly they were placed. The ruling Georgian Dream party pushed through mandatory gender quotas ahead of the 2020 parliamentary and 2021 local elections in an apparent bid to pro

Analysis

Datablog | Support for gender equality in parliament is rising in Georgia

by Eto Gagunashvili

•2 min read

Despite the introduction of gender quotas, Georgia’s parliament remains an unequal place in terms of gender. However, the data suggests support for more women in politics is rising. Women have been and are underrepresented in Georgia’s parliament, with only 17% of seats held by women as of March 2021. This is despite the passage of gender quotas in 2020, according to which parties must nominate at least one woman for every four candidates. The discrepancy stems from a mixture of the mixed e

Abortion

Analysis | Despite opinion shift a third of Georgians still prefer sons to daughters

by CRRC

•2 min read

Preferences for the gender of children has a long history around the world and Georgia is no exception. CRRC-Georgia examines how attitudes have changed over the last decade. In Georgia, having a boy has traditionally been desirable as sons are often considered the main successors in the family line, and they stay at home to take care of their parents as they age in contrast to women who traditionally move in with their husband’s family. Preferences for sons are manifested in sex-selective

Analysis

Analysis | Men report doing more at home than they likely do in Armenia and Georgia

by CRRC

•3 min read

According to data from a UN Women survey, men and women in Armenia and Georgia have different perceptions of the amount of work they are doing. In Armenia and Georgia, traditional gender roles continue to define the division of labour within families. Although a few tasks are within men’s domain and a few others are more or less equally shared, for the most part, women hold the primary responsibility for household duties. However, men and women also have different perceptions of how much wor

Analysis

Analysis | Women are significantly less likely to go out to eat in Georgia

by CRRC

•4 min read

Busy restaurants and cafes are a common sight in Georgia, and CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer data suggest that restaurants and cafés have become busier over the last five years. While 27% of Georgia’s population reported going to a restaurant in 2012, five years later, 50% did. There is an upward trend for both men and women, yet the data also suggests there is a significant gender gap. Taking into account other social and demographic characteristics, women are significantly less likely to go to r

Armenia

The woman shoemaker of Yerevan

by Armine Avetisyan

•5 min read

The situation on Armenia’s labour market is dire and it’s women who are affected the most. Gayane Ghambaryan, who has worked most of her life doing ‘man’s work’, tells of her struggle as her family’s sole breadwinner. Gayane Ghambaryan, who is known in Yerevan as the woman shoemaker, has spent 25 years of her life in a dilapidated cottage with a roof destroyed by rain and snow and the scent of glue deeply soaked into the walls. At her small workshop on the outskirts of the city, she al

Discrimination

Opinion | Georgian women face discrimination in the workforce

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•3 min read

Labour legislation in Georgia is not gender sensitive, and does not comply with international standards. It does not protect women from being discriminated against, whether in the pre-contract stage or within the workplace. A vivid example to the inequality women face in the workplace is the huge pay gap between men and women for equal labour. There are no regulations covering equal pay in the country’s labour code, the Law on Gender Equality or any other regulation. This is yet another short