Afganistan’da Dışarıda Çalışan Kadınlara İlişkin Sosyo-Demografik Faktörlerin Cinsiyet Normlarına Etkisi

Year 2021, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 801 - 813, 25.09.2021

Mustafa Kartal

Abstract

Kadınların ekonomik gücü, kadınların ne yapmasına izin verilmesi gerektiği konusunda toplum üyeleri arasında hakim olan normlardan etkilenmektedir. Afganistan'da kadınların erkeklerden ayrı bir yerde çalışmaları bekleniyor ya da erkeklerin onayını almaları gerekmekte ve bizim hesaplamalarımıza göre insanların çoğu dışarıdaki çalışmalarıyla hemfikir olduklarını göstermektedir. Asia Foundation'dan alınan anket verileri için lojistik regresyonlar uygulayarak; eğitim, şehirleşme ve TV izlemenin kadınların dışarıda çalışmasını destekleyen normlar üzerinde olumlu etkisi olduğu bulunmuştur. En iyi strateji, her iki cinsiyetten insanların eğitimine yatırım yapmak ve kadınların güçlenmesi için kampanyaya medyanın faaliyetlerini artırmaktır.

Keywords

Sosyo-Demografik faktörler, Afganistan, Kadın, Cinsiyet normları, Logit regresyonu

The Impact of Socio-Demographic Factors on the Gender Norms about Women outside Working in Afghanistan

Abstract

Women's economic power is affected by the norms prevailing among society members on what women should be allowed to do. In Afghanistan, women are expected to work in a separate place from men or they should take the approval of men and as per our calculation most of the people show their agreement with their outside working. By deploying logistic regressions for a survey data taken from Asia Foundation; we found that education, urbanization and TV watching have positive impact on the norms supporting women's working outside. The best strategy is to invest in education of the people from both sexes and increase the activity of media to campaign for women empowerment.

Keywords

Socio-Demographic factors, Afghanistan, Female, Gender norms, Logit regression

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