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EUROPE-CENTRAL ASIA: Gender Gap Growing In Transition Countries
Gender disparities are growing in the 27 transition countries of Europe and Central Asia, the World Bank said in a report released yesterday...Citing Tajikistan as an example, the report says that women who work now earn just a little over half what men earn. The picture is similarly distorted in Kazakhstan, a wealthier country, where women earn less than 70 percent of what men earn, even when they are more qualified.