The article considers the value orientations of the Afrasian zone of instability on the basis of two gender dimensions: gender power and economic gender dimension. The authors include in the Afrasian zone of instability the Near and Middle East including North Africa, Central Asia and Pakistan, as well as the Sahel countries. The analysis allows to conclude that, according to some of the countries' values, the Afrasian zone forms a fairly compact cluster which differs markedly both from the countries of Africa south of the Sahel and from the Eastern Islamic countries, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. The differences of the countries of the Afrasian zone from Africa south of the Sahel are especially pronounced in these dimensions. The Eastern Islamic countries differ quite strongly from the countries of the Afrasian zone in the political gender space. But their differences are not so obvious in the economic gender space, although these differences, however, are statistically significant. This fact correlates well with the fact that the countries of Africa south of the Sahel are characterized by high female labor force participation rates. This feature radically differentiates them from the countries of the Afrasian zone, for the majority of which extremely low female labor force participation rates are rather typical. At the same time, the Eastern Islamic countries where female labor force participation rates are close to the world average, do not differ so much from the countries of the Afrasian zone in the economic gender value dimension.