Kadın Güçlendirmesi ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği’nin Ölçülmesi: Türkiye Örneği

Öz

Çağdaş Türkiye'de kadın güçlendirilmesi ve cinsiyet eşitsizliğini analiz etmek oldukça önemlidir. Türkiye Cumhuriyetinin kurulmasından bu yana kadınların sosyoekonomik ve kültürel gelişimi için birçok reform gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu reformlar bile çağdaş Türkiye'de cinsiyet eşitsizliğini ortadan kaldıramamıştır.

Bu araştırma, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu verilerini kullanarak ve ikili lojistik regresyon uygulayarak Türkiye'de kadın güçlendirilmesine cinsiyetçi açıdan incelemektedir. Araştırma sonuçları kadınların çalışma hayatı içerisinde olmasının, kadın güçlendirilmesi için oldukça etkisi olduğudur. Analizin bir diğer sonucu ise aynı işlerde çalışan kadınların güçlendirmesinin daha mümkün olduğudur. Bu bakımdan çeşitli mesleki özellikler bazı güçlendirme göstergeleri ile bağlantılıdır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Kadın güçlendirmesi,toplumsal cinsiyet,cinsiyet eşitliği

Measuring Women Empowerment and Gender Equality: Case of Turkey

Öz

It is very important to explore women’s empowerment and gender disparity in contemporary Turkey. Various reforms have been propounded since the establishment of the Turkish Republic to promote women’s socioeconomic and cultural development. Even with these reforms, gender inequality remains Turkey’s contemporary challenge.

This research looks at women’s empowerment in Turkey utilizing Turkish Statistics Institute data and applying binary logistic regression. The suggestions of this research is that being among the labor market is vital to women’s empowerment. The findings of this analysis also shows that women in some job fields have a higher probability for empowerment. Various occupational features are linked with some empowerment indicators.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Women’s empowerment,gender mainstreaming,gender equality

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