{"id":167242,"date":"2012-03-07T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=167242"},"modified":"2012-03-07T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:02:35","slug":"meaningless-to-spend-money-on-educating-armenian-women-sociologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/07\/meaningless-to-spend-money-on-educating-armenian-women-sociologist.html","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless to Spend Money on Educating Armenian Women: Sociologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 21st century requires women to be equal to men in strength and ability, said sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, speaking in the Armenian capital today about the 21st century Armenian woman.<\/p>\n

Adibekyan said that his research has showen that Armenians are “bearers of Aryan culture and men have a dominant role in our society.”<\/p>\n

“We were studying whether a woman’s role can change after transitioning from a totalitarian system. The role of women in our country didn’t change after independence. Though more than half of voters are women, there was a modest number of women in the majoritarian [single-mandate] constituencies. Only <\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object> Hranush Hakobyan had the opportunity of winning in the elections, being an exceptional figure, when a woman can overcome gender issues,” he said.<\/p>\n

Money spent on women’s education is an unnecessary expense, Adibekyan continued, since a large portion of the unemployed are highly educated women.<\/p>\n

According to the sociologist, women are actively engaged in neither politics nor business. He said that only 18% of owners of businesses registered in Armenia are women \u2014 not to mention that a portion of these women are owners in name only, since their husbands, who are members of parliament and cannot own businesses, register their businesses in their wives’ names.<\/p>\n

Adibekyan believes that women’s lower role in society is due to the fact that they don’t value themselves and are used to answering to men.<\/p>\n

“When we say become a director, they have an aversion to being a leader, to the responsibility. We have only two female ministers. Among village mayors there are only a few women. There are relatively more [women] In the judiciary since women accept bribes less,” he said.<\/p>\n

In the sociologist’s opinion, women are more conservative, explaining that 40% of Armenian men but only 30% of Armenian women place importance on having sexual experience before marriage.<\/p>\n

“We’re not as liberal as we could’ve been at our level of democracy. But if we become a European country, we will disappear faster than we are disappearing. If we remain [an] Asiatic [country], we will remain backward and emigration [from the country] will increase,” he said, expressing hope that “the public will find the golden middle.”<\/p>\n

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