International Conference on Eurasian Economies
24-25 August 2021 – Istanbul, TURKEY and ONLINE
Paper properties
Paper ID : 2558
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Growth and Development
Presenter: Ph.D. candidate Ezgi Demiral
Session : 3A Kalkınma
Comparative Analysis of Female Poverty in Turkey with OECD Countries
Türkiye’deki Kadın Yoksulluğunun OECD Ülkeleri ile Karşılaştırmalı Analizi
- Ph.D. candidate Ezgi Demiral (Doğuş University, Türkiye)
Abstract
The significant a reason of female poverty is that in general, women aren't considered to be in the labour market. Women that are in the labour market either in lower status from men or perform informal jobs or get paid less money even when they're employed in the same jobs. Female employment rate or women's education level are indicator of female poverty. The aim of this paper is to analyse female poverty in Turkey and selected OECD countries. This study obtained the female employment rate and women's education level data from the Economic Co-operation and Development database for the years between 2008-2019. Graphic by these data were analyzed comparative data analysis. In addition, specifically for the analysis of structure of women's employment in Turkey was to get data related to part-time employment, informal jobs and unpaid family workers from Turkish Statistical Institute. The results show that both women in labour market and women's education levels are extremely low level in Turkey compared to selected OECD countries. Part-time employment, informal jobs and unpaid family workers have place in women's employment. When women's employment increases it's expected to see that women poverty decreases. But women in Turkey mostly works in informal jobs or flexible working hours. This situation isn't enough effective enough to struggle fight female poverty and this resulted working women poverty. Firstly, policies should be developed to improve women will have increased participation in the qualified workforce and to length of stay in education by governments.
JEL codes: I32, J71
Demiral, Ezgi (2021). "Comparative Analysis of Female Poverty in Turkey with OECD Countries" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2021, pp.59-65, Istanbul, TURKEY and ONLINE.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C13.02558
