Editing Women's rights (section)

===== Central Asia =====

[[Central Asia]]n cultures largely remain patriarchal, however, since the fall of the former Soviet Union, the secular societies of the region have become more progressive to women's roles outside the traditional construct of being wholly subservient to men.<ref name="Zirin">{{cite book|last1=Zirin|first1=Mary|title=Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1317451969|page=2120|edition=Vol 1}}</ref> In Mongolia, more women than men complete school and are higher earners as result.<ref name="earners">{{cite web|title=Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Expanding Female Leadership in Mongolian Politics and Businesses|url=http://www.mn.undp.org/content/mongolia/en/home/presscenter/articles/2016/10/31/beyond-the-glass-ceiling-expanding-female-leadership-in-mongolian-politics-and-businesses.html|website=UNDP|access-date=2 November 2017|archive-date=21 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421074543/https://www.mn.undp.org/content/mongolia/en/home/presscenter/articles/2016/10/31/beyond-the-glass-ceiling-expanding-female-leadership-in-mongolian-politics-and-businesses.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The UN Development Programme notes "significant progress" in gender equality in Kazakhstan but discrimination persists.<ref name="Conkievich">{{cite web|title=Statement on International women's day by UN Resident Coordinator in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Norimasa Shimomura and Representative of UN Women in Central Asia Mrs. Elaine Conkievich|url=http://www.kz.undp.org/content/kazakhstan/en/home/presscenter/speeches/2016/03/07/statement-on-international-women-s-day-by-un-resident-coordinator-in-the-republic-of-kazakhstan-mr-norimasa-shimomura-and-representative-of-un-women-in-central-asia-mrs-elaine-conkievich.html|website=UNDP|publisher=UN Development Programme|access-date=2 November 2017|archive-date=26 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726165732/https://www.kz.undp.org/content/kazakhstan/en/home/presscenter/speeches/2016/03/07/statement-on-international-women-s-day-by-un-resident-coordinator-in-the-republic-of-kazakhstan-mr-norimasa-shimomura-and-representative-of-un-women-in-central-asia-mrs-elaine-conkievich.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Marriage by abduction]] remains a serious problem in this region; the practice of bride kidnapping is prevalent in [[Kyrgyzstan]],<ref>Human Rights Watch, ''Reconciled to Violence''</ref> [[Kazakhstan]],<ref>Werner, Cynthia, "[http://www.cynthiawerner.com/uploads/2/2/0/6/22066332/2004_werner_-_women_marriage_nation-state.pdf Women, marriage, and the nation-state: the rise of nonconsensual bride kidnapping in post-Soviet Kazakhstan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306155726/http://cynthiawerner.com/uploads/2/2/0/6/22066332/2004_werner_-_women_marriage_nation-state.pdf |date=6 March 2016 }}", in ''The Transformation of Central Asia''. Pauline Jones Luong, ed.  Ithaca, New York: [[Cornell University Press]], 2004, pp. 59–89</ref> [[Turkmenistan]],<ref>United Nations Population Fund, [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20070817041522/http://www.unfpa.org/16days/documents/pl_bridenapping_factsheet.doc "Bride Kidnapping Fact Sheet"]</ref> and [[Karakalpakstan]], an autonomous region of [[Uzbekistan]].<ref>[http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd&#91;157&#93;=x-157-64561 "Uzbekistan: No love lost in Karakalpak bride thefts"], wluml.org. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114065216/http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd |date=14 January 2009 }}</ref>