Uzbekistan is the most populated among Central Asian countries. As per the estimates in 2006, 26.4 million people, or 45 per cent of the region’s population, lived here, which presupposes that socio-economic and demographic processes appear in the country have a significant influence on the region. In the later years labour migration has become wide spread, linking Uzbekistan with many other countries. Uzbekistan is primarily a labour sending country. According to estimates, somewhat 7 per cent of the economically active population of Uzbekistan is participating in internal and external labour migration. Research shows that most labour migrants are men. However, in the last few years the involvement of women migrants has been on the rise both internally and externally. This indicates a direction towards feminization of migration processes in the country. Based on several sociological studies, this article attempts to describe how and why the composition of labour migrants has changed.