Roma Gender Dimensions in Four Bulgarian Neighborhoods

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Roma represent a large ethnic minority in Bulgaria, but it is not a homogeneous group - as many as 60 different Roma groups live in the country with different culture, traditions and religion. Roma are one of the poorest populations in Bulgaria. As many as one in three Roma live in extreme poverty earning less than $4.30 a day, compared to just one in twenty among the rest of the population But poverty is not the only challenge: traditional social norms, including gender roles, are changing and tensions between those who seek to cope by adopting new roles and those who want to preserve traditional roles and values are emerging.

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Hristo BotevNeighborhood in Sofia

Neighborhood in PlovdivNeighborhood in YambolSheker Mahala Vesselinovo

Byala Slatina

Population: 8,000-9,000 Mixed, Djorevtsi

20-23

16-20

Education: Girls

Age of marriage

Men Women

Ethnic Subgroups:

Less than 50% complete secondary school

Population: 2,200 Kalayzdhi, Reshetari

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17-20

Education: Girls

Age of marriage

Men Women

Ethnic Subgroups:

45% complete secondary schoo

Population: 8,000 - 9,000 Holohane Roma (Millet), majority Muslims

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15

Education: Girls

Age of marriage

Men Women

Ethnic Subgroups:

very few complete secondary school

Population: 402 Eastern Orthodox or Evangelists

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13

Education: Girls

Age of marriage

Men Women

Ethnic Subgroups:

very few complete secondary school

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