DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN TURKEY: A REVIEW OF THE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL LITERATURE

Year 2002, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 1 - 13, 01.05.2002

Serap Palaz

Abstract

Labour market discrimination can be defined as
occurring when one group of workers with abilities,
education, training, and experience equal to
another group of workers are provided inferior
treatment in hiring, occupational access, promotion
or wage rates on the basis of some personal
characteristic, such as gender or race, which is
unrelated to productivity. In the light of this
definition, the purpose of this study is to analyse
gender discrimination in the Turkish labour market.
Studies of gender discrimination in the labour
market have been very popular during the last three
decades, but most of the research on labour market
discrimination has been confined to developed
countries such as the UK, the USA, and Austria etc.
In this paper we analyse the existing theoretical
and empirical literature of gender discrimination
and evaluate their relevance in a developing
country such as Turkey where traditional and
cultural beliefs and norm are still prevalent.

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