2015, no. 2

THE ROLE OF GENDER EQUALITY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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Authors:  
Khatuna BERISHVILI , PhD, Associated Professor, Tbilisi Tbilisi State University

To study the problems of gender equality is of great importance for the global business. Gender is a cultural construct, within which our different cultures attach different values, roles and responsibilities to women and men. However, in addition to culture, the gender issues are in close relation with the global business. From this viewpoint, experience of the West is considerable and of great importance. It can be said that the problems of women’s rights and a whole number of barriers, which impede to reach the gender equality have long been a great problem for the leading countries of Europe and America. But one problem remains – the so-called „Glass Ceiling” – the barriers, which impede carrier advance of the female representatives.

In the background of such diversity it is interesting to familiarize with the apprehension of gender equality in Georgia.

Keywords:  
gender, gender equality, economics, business, women's rights, glass ceiling, Georgia.