The Role of Women in Turkish Economy

The authors confirm that the low female labor force participation rate in Turkey is a structural problem. The topics are wage gap problem, motherhood penalty, the lack of harmonization of work and family life policies, gender effect on the performance of organizations, glass ceiling syndrome and representation of women at senior roles in Turkey.

The contributing authors in this book emphasize that in Turkey the female labor force participation rate is distinctly lower than in advanced economies despite a significant improvement in the last decade. The indicated data evoke several simple questions. Firstly, what's holding women back? What are the impediments to female labor force participation that cause the gender gap in employment? Secondly, what are the costs of lower economic participation of women for themselves, their families and the economy as a whole? We hope that identifying and assessing factors that enhance or mute labor force participation of women can open important policy insights.

Autorentext

Elif Nurölu is an associate professor of Economics at the Turkish-German University. She graduated in Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2004 and received her PhD from University of Vienna in 2010. Her research fields are International Economics, Gravity Model, Neural Networks, Empirical Economics and Labor Market Economics. Çiydem Çatak works as an assistant professor of Finance in the Department of Business Administration at the Turkish-German University. She received her MA and PhD degrees in Accounting and Finance at Marmara University. Her fields of specialization are Corporate Finance, Banking, Entrepreneurial Finance and Financial Economics.

Inhalt

Gender equality - Female labor force participation - Wage gap - Representation of women - Harmonization policies - Economic development - Senior roles - Educated women - Decent work - Glass ceiling - Sectoral distribution - Gender effect - Married women - Gendered preferences - Fertility