Party Politics of the AKP (2002–2007) and the Predicaments of Women at the Intersection of the Westernist, Islamist and Feminist Discourses in Turkey 1

AG Ayata, F Tütüncü - Gender and Diversity in the Middle East …, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
ABSTRACT Celebrating the World Women's Day and initiating a conference for promoting
Turkey's integration to Europe on the one hand, and discussing the discrimination against …

The determinants of women's empowerment in Turkey: A multilevel analysis

K Cinar, T Kose - South European Society and Politics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyses the state and determinants of women's empowerment in Turkey, based
on an extensive and representative survey with more than 100,000 participants. It creates an …

Who is patriarchal? The correlates of patriarchy in Turkey

B Ozdemir-Sarigil, Z Sarigil - South European Society and Politics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of patriarchal attitudes and
orientations in Turkey, a Muslim-majority country. The following questions direct the current …

Women's tertiary education masks the gender wage gap in Turkey

H Tekgüç, D Eryar, D Cindoğlu - Journal of Labor Research, 2017 - Springer
This paper investigates the gender wage gap for full-time formal sector employees,
disaggregated by education level. The gap between the labor force participation rate of …

A behavioral analysis of investor diversification

AM Fuertes, G Muradoglu… - The European Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper studies the link between individual investors' portfolio diversification levels and
various personal traits that proxy informational advantages and overconfidence. The …

Gender and the expansion of university education in Jordan

W Jansen - Gender and Education, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores how gender is threaded through the expansion and privatization of
higher education in Jordan. Due to the justified current concern with the educational deficit …

Tongues of fire: women's suicide and self-injury by burns in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

IA Rasool, JL Payton - The Sociological Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Self-burning and self-immolation are forms of self-harm found across the Eastern
Mediterranean region and South and Central Asia. The majority of those choosing these …

An insight into the challenges faced by academic women with pre-school age children in academic life.

G Günçavdi, S Göktürk, O Bozoglu - Universal Journal of Educational …, 2017 - ERIC
This study aimed to explore the challenges academic women, especially those who were
mothers of pre-school age children, went through. The main guiding question of this study …

Women's empowerment on a local level in Turkey: the case of violence against women

A Sumbas, B Koyuncu - Turkish Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Moving from the assumption that local governments are significant stakeholders of women's
empowerment policies, this article aims to examine the struggle against violence against …

What the City Has to Offer: Urbanization and Women's Empowerment in Turkey

K Cinar, M Ugur-Cinar - Politics & Gender, 2018 - cambridge.org
This article examines the relationship between urbanization and women's empowerment
through the Turkish case. The article first tests statistically the overall impact of urbanization …