Employment
The participation rate of Turkish women in the work force is 28%, less than half the European Union average. Out of 26 million employable women, only 5.9 million are in the labor force. 23.4% of women have either been forced by men to quit their jobs or prevented from working. The rate of women not covered by social security is 84% in the East and 87% in the Southeast.
Women’s employment has decreased since 2000 and the participation of women in the workforce lags behind some Islamic countries as well as western countries. One of the reasons for this is the increased migration of rural women, who would otherwise have been employed in the agriculture sector. Compared to other Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, Turkey is the only one with a diminishing rate of women’s employment.
According to a report by Catalyst, in 2008 both parents worked full-time in 11.6% of Turkish households, while in 3.3% one parent worked full-time and one part-time. Only one parent worked full-time in 68.9% of households.
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