Women’s role in Georgian economy and the transformation of public opinion

Abstract

Current Globalization and democratic processes raised the question of women’s economic actuality more acutely in the order of the day. To approach with European standards and to keep the norms, which is necessary to create the relevant economic and political environment of country’s development and social justice, requires to promote women’s and men’s equal participation in the management system of the country. We conducted research which referred to the introduction of public attitudes towards the gender equality and the result is that, the majority of the respondents support women’s and men’s equality in the family and in social life as well, a great part of respondents consider that woman should be on leadership positions and men and women should equally be family breadwinners. It’s true that, in Georgia there’s political will of formation of society, which will be democratically and socially equal, but the current changes in the country, couldn’t ensure full realization of European values. Women’s participation in the political and economic decision making processes is still nominal and the implementation of gender equality policy on different levels of state management is not possible.