EĞİTİMDE CİNSİYET FARKININ KAPATILMASI MI, ERKEK BASKINLIĞININ KALDIRILMASI MI? KUZEY KIBRIS’TA MESLEKİ CİNSİYET AYRIŞMASI

Year 2019, Volume: 37 Issue: 1, 89 - 110, 27.03.2019

Demet Beton Kalmaz , Fatma Güven Lisaniler

https://doi.org/10.17065/huniibf.345011

Abstract

Yapmış olduğumuz
çalışma 2004-2014 yılları arasında Kuzey Kıbrıs emek piyasasındaki kadının
işgücüne düşük katılımının sebebinin kısıtlı talep kökenli olup olmadığı araştırmaktadır.
Bu amaçla mesleki cinsiyet ayrışması ölçümü ve sebepleri ortaya çıkarılmak için
Hanehalkı İşgücü Anketi verileri kullanılarak 9 ana mesleki grup için analiz
edilmiştir. Amaç, Kuzey Kıbrıs emek piyasasındaki mesleki ayrışmanın
büyüklüğünü, zaman içerisindeki değişimini ve bu değişimin kaynaklarını
araştırmaktır. Elde edilen sonuçlar, ilgili zaman dilimi içerisinde mesleki
ayrışmanın yüksek ve yaygın olduğunu sebebinin ise net ayrışmadan, yani
bireysel meslekler içindeki kadın erkek oranında meydana gelen değişmeden,
kaynaklandığını ortaya koymuştur.  Ayrışma indeksinin kaynaklarını ortaya
koyabilmek için beşeri sermaye ve feminist teorilerin ileri sürmüş olduğu
açıklamalardan yararlanılmış, devam eden süre içerisindeki, özellikle ekonomik
ve kültürel yapı incelenmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda,  kısıtlı talepten dolayı kadının meslek
grupları arasında hareketinin kısıtlandığı ve bunun da işgücüne katılımını
olumsuz etkilediği sonucuna varılmıştır.

Keywords

Mesleki ayrışma, toplumsal cinsiyet, kuzey kıbrıs

CLOSING GENDER GAP IN EDUCATION OR ELIMINATION OF MALE DOMINATION? OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION IN NORTH CYPRUS

Abstract

This
study examines if the low rate of labour force participation of women is the
result of demand constraint which creates gender based occupational segregation
in north Cyprus labour market between years 2004-2014. Standardized D-index is
used to calculate the level of segregation and to decompose and identify the
effect of the changes in the occupational structure of the labour force and the
effect of the changes in the gender composition within the occupations on
segregation index by employing the data collected from (ISCO-88 one-digit)
Household Labour Force Surveys (HLFS) (2004-2014) for nine broad occupational
categories.  The purpose is to expand the
body of research on the extent, trends and sources of occupational gender
segregation in the north Cyprus. The results indicate that over the investigated
period occupational gender segregation is salient and persistent. It is found
that the main source of the changes in segregation index is the shifts in
gender composition within occupations. For the investigation of the source of
the segregation index the explanations of human capital and feminist theories
and the ongoing processes, in particular economic and social, that might have
influences on gender segregation are employed.       As
a result it is confirmed that demand constraint in north Cyprus leads to low
labour force participation of women through gender based occupational
segregation.

Keywords

occupational segregation, dissimilarity index, north Cyprus, gender

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