SUMMARY
The section explores women's participation in the labor force in Turkey, analyzing the factors influencing their employment status and the broader implications. It examines women's roles in the workforce, reasons for not working, previous employment experience, and job-seeking behavior. Additionally, it assesses both women's and men's perspectives on masculine thought patterns in professional life. Key topics include:
- Employment status, education level, income brackets
- Changes in the proportion of employed individuals over the years
- Proportion of women in the workforce
- Female representation in different working groups (proportion within the group)
- Gender-based changes in workplace roles
- Distribution of employees by gender and job position
- Why are you not working?
- Have you ever had a job?
- Are you looking for a job, a side job or a part-time job?
- How long have you been looking for a job?
- Attitudes toward masculine thought patterns in professional life
In Turkey, where the population is aging and the ratio of the workforce to the general population is shrinking, women constitute one of the largest groups not included in the labor force despite being potential participants. Due to reasons such as child and elderly care, housework, and a lack of desire to work, housewives make up the majority of the non-working female population. While the ratio of working women to all women is 25%, this ratio is 62% for men.
When examining the education levels of employees, it is observed that university graduates constitute the largest group among women, while high school graduates form the largest group among men. The increase in women's participation in employment over the last 14 years is noteworthy. Additionally, while the rate of housewives has decreased across all age groups, the rate of students among young women aged 18-33 has increased. Since 2008, there has been an increase in the proportion of blue-collar and white-collar/civil servant women. 34% of non-working women stated that the reason for not working is the necessity of attending to housework.
While the employment rate among women increases with education level, this is not observed among men. It is also observed that masculine thought tendencies decrease depending on the increase in education level, secularization, and income level.
