This article aims to quantitatively analyze the environmental vulnerability and policy awareness of rural women in the Fergana Valley amidst climate change. The sociological survey results (N=51) revealed that 60.8% of rural women independently manage agricultural plots due to male out-migration; however, 100% of them lack full functional awareness of state "green" subsidies. The findings empirically prove a profound "policy evaporation" in climate finance implementation and highlight that women disproportionately suffer from discriminatory water distribution (52.9%) favoring large-scale commercial farms. Furthermore, the study confirms the prevalence of a "pooled household budget" model (47.1%) in financial decision-making, challenging the applicability of the Western "gender pay gap" metric.
Yulduz Yusupova (Mon,) studied this question.