Segregation at work, segregation at home: Turkish women, gendered jobs and prestige

Thesis

This study sets out to understand the position of Turkish women in gendered jobs and jobs with different levels of prestige from the 1980s to the 2000s, and to compare this position to that of women in similar countries where possible. Although Turkish women's enrolment rates in traditionally male subjects in higher education is above the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average and despite the fact that they exceed their male counterparts in their graduat...

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Authors: Ermis, A; Asli Ermis Mert

• Publication date: 2015
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-2r4kbzrpb
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: occupational prestige; gender and work; family and social policy; employment and family; women; domestic division of labour; female employment
• Subjects: Households; Women; Employment; Sociology; Social policy & social work; Gender