Women Employment and Family in Turkey: A Comparison between Perceptions and the Theory

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Women Employment and Family in Turkey: A Comparison between Perceptions and the Theory

Journal Title: SGD - SOSYAL GUVENLIK DERGISI - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2

Abstract

There are different approaches about where Turkish welfare regime should be placed among welfare models in the relevant literature. That being said, especially when taking women's and family’s position into consideration, Turkey shows similar tendencies with South European Welfare Regimes’ (SEWR) characteristics. In this paper, a questionnaire has been developed within the scope of a framework that is based on the literature on Turkey’s membership to SEWR. The questionnaire aims to test compatibility between SEWR characteristics put forwardin the related literature and Turkish citizens’ perception about welfare state. Cross-tabulation and regression analysis were used to evaluate results of the questionnaire.The results of the analyses show that, while the responds about perception on sole breadwinner – dual breadwinner and, perception on women employment were not compatible with the literature, perception on who can be trusted in case of urgent crisis and, perception on the most important insurance branch were in parallel with the literature. Since the transformation from sole breadwinner to dual breadwinner has serious effects on both labour market and family structure, it was chosen as dependent variable for regression analysis. The analysis indicated that perception about women employment is the most powerful predictor of the dependent variable.

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Varol Dur

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