Academic employment and gender: A Turkish challenge to vertical sex segregation created by Geraldine Healy, Mustafa Özbilgin, and Hanife Aliefendioğlu

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Healy, Geraldine [author]

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TextSeries: European journal of industrial relations ; Volume 11, number 2London: Sage, 2005Content type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

09596801

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Academic Employment and Gender -- Turkish Challenge -- Sex Segregation -- Turkey

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HD8371 EUR

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Abstract: This article explores the paradox of women’s academic employment in Turkey. There is a low rate of female labour market participation in the formal sector, yet a higher proportion of women professors than in any of the 25 European Union countries. We use a range of data to set the Turkish labour market and its higher education sector in comparative European perspective, then present findings from two qualitative studies of Turkish professors, concluding that ideological state support rather than legal frameworks of equal opportunities laid the foundations for women’s hierarchical achievements in Turkey. However, the explanation is multilayered and lies in the cumulative and interrelated effect of state policy, institutional transparency, increased labour demand, the home-work interface, and the agency of the professors themselves.

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This article explores the paradox of women’s academic employment in Turkey. There is a low rate of female labour market participation in the formal sector, yet a higher proportion of women professors than in any of the 25 European Union countries. We use a range of data to set the Turkish labour market and its higher education sector in comparative European perspective, then present findings from two qualitative studies of Turkish professors, concluding that ideological state support rather than legal frameworks of equal opportunities laid the foundations for women’s hierarchical achievements in Turkey. However, the explanation is multilayered and lies in the cumulative and interrelated effect of state policy, institutional transparency, increased labour demand, the home-work interface, and the agency of the professors themselves.

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