Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to determine the interaction between the socio-demographic characteristics of individuals and their perspectives on the participation and place of women in working life. Secondary data were used in the study. The data set used is the 2014 data of the World Values Survey Turkey. Nonlinear Canonical Correlation Analysis, which is one of the Optimal Scaled multivariate analysis techniques, was applied on the data in accordance with the purpose of study. The key finding; there is a moderate relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics of individuals and their perspectives on the place of women in working life. Then, Two Step Cluster analysis was applied on the data set in order to aggregate the individuals in Turkey according to their socio-demographic characteristics and their perspectives of women in working life. According to the findings of analysis, it can be said that housewives have a more discriminatory perspective whereas the full-time employees have a more egalitarian one. In addition, for those with a secondary level of education, it was determined that the perspective on the subject changed from discriminatory to egalitarian as the level of education increases. As a result, education level and participation of women in working life should be increased.