It has been argued that the “elevated time necessary to carry out housework, the division of roles within the household, the lack of social safety, and growing pessimism” throughout the Azerbaijani society after the dismantling of the USSR are the “main components for this decline in women’s participation in politics” ([14], p. 117). Towards the top of the 19th century, with the formation of the local, ethnically Azerbaijani, bourgeois business class influenced by the ideas of Russian and European secularism, […]
