ANALYSIS OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION WITH RESPECT TO THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

Year 2016, Volume: 25 Issue: 1, 59 - 76, 29.04.2016

Semin Paksoy , Süleyman Bilgin Kılıç

Abstract

Gender discrimination is a social phenomenon by preventing women from the participation of the economic, social and political life. Main research questions of this study are; firstly is there any gender discrimination within European Union (EU) countries considering three groups of economic development level, and secondly, what are the effects of economic development on gender discrimination? In the study, first a cross-country multivariate-analysis-of-variance (ANOVA) is performed to compare socio-economic conditions of female and male population with respect to ten relevant gender discrimination indicators for the time period of 2005-2013. Second, a cross-country regression analysis is performed among the EU countries to observe that economic development has any explanatory power on gender discrimination indicator. Results show that in the euro area economic development evenly improves the status of both females and males. However, not depending on the economic development level there is a persistent and high level of gender pay-gap exists in the euro area for the period considered.

Keywords

Gender discrimination, European Union, Economic development, Regression analysis, Multivariate analysis of variance

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