Aspects of Youth Education, Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Increasing unemployment of youth and a poor quality of youth employment are among the key problems of the modern labour market. According to the ILO, the number of unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 has been steadily growing within the latest decade; hundreds of millions of young people are working but still living in poverty. Female youth are the worst affected, since in the environment of reviving patriarchate stereotypes and gender roles, they are being discriminated in the labour market on two grounds: age and sex. The purpose of this paper is to partially fill the existing gaps related to labour market situation of youth. This survey presents the situation of youth in such areas as education, economic activity, unemployment, rates and quality of employment, as well as to highlight gender aspects of these problems.