The Twenty-fifth Congress of the CPSU and Current Problems of Employment of Female Labor in the Republics of Central Asia

At the Twenty-fifth CPSU Congress, special attention was given to the need to study fundamental socioeconomic problems of communist construction in the USSR. Its significance was reemphasized at the October 1976 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee. Addressing that meeting, L. I. Brezhnev especially stressed the need for more effective utilization of labor resources. The role of female labor in the economy increases rapidly with the growth of the industrial potential of the Central Asian republics, the blossoming of their cultures, and the rising standards of general and specialized education. In the republics of Central Asia, the problem of optimum employment of women remains a pressing one. At the same time, in the economic literature it is assessed differently in different studies. The rational employment of women of indigenous nationalities calls for the solution of a number of socioeconomic problems acceleration of the development of public services and children's and preschool institutions.