content tagged with women's employment

'Increase in women's unemployment is alarming'

'Increase in women's unemployment is alarming'

The gender gap in unemployment rates has reached 4.9 percent, according to BETAM.

13 January 2022

Women’s share in employment shrinking day by day

TEPAV EMPLOYMENT MONITOR

Women’s share in employment shrinking day by day

According to a recent report released by the Economy Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, the number of farmers has decreased by 4.3 percent in Turkey in the last year.

‘Women’s employment shrinks in Turkey amid pandemic’

TEPAV BULLETIN

‘Women’s employment shrinks in Turkey amid pandemic’

The Economy Policy Research Foundation has released its Employment Monitoring Bulletin, which shows that women’s employment has narrowed by nearly 81 thousand in the last four months amid COVID-19 measures against the second wave.

TEPAV: Non-Agricultural Female Workers Reaches 4.8M in Turkey

TEPAV: Non-Agricultural Female Workers Reaches 4.8M in Turkey

According to a recent Employment Monitoring Bulletin released by Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), the number of non-agricultural female workers rose by 50 percent in the past 5 years.

'Children into School, Women into Employment'

CHILD LABOUR

'Children into School, Women into Employment'

Data compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute reveals that there are 958,000 child workers in Turkey. Children rights advocator Fişek demands to increase primary education to 12 years and take women confined at home into employment.

11 June 2010 Tolga Korkut,Semra Pelek

More than 50 Percent of Women Work off the Record

More than 50 Percent of Women Work off the Record

Women's unemployment was discussed at the "EU Accession Process and Women's Employment" conference held in Diyarbakır. A crucial reason for the high women's unemployment rate in the south-east of Turkey is illiteracy. 66 percent of employed women work off the record.

10 February 2010 Burçin Belge

Parental Leave for Turkish Fathers

WOMEN RIGHTS

Parental Leave for Turkish Fathers

The AKP women's representation prepared a report concerned with increasing women's employment, Minister Dinçer started to work on its implementation. The report contains proposals such as the struggle against discrimination of women in employment or improving unemployment security.

23 December 2009 Ikbal Polat

Turkish Women Unemployed Longer Than Men

WOMEN'S LABOR

Turkish Women Unemployed Longer Than Men

A research of BETAM revealed that increased unemployment during the economic crisis effects men and women differently. Unemployed women have a high level of education but only little work experience. Gender based role expectations exclude women from the labor market.

25 September 2009 Erhan Üstündağ

"MoS Offers to Solve Unemployment by Leaving Women Home"

Reacting to Şimşek's logic that unemployment rose because women began looking for work, Eğitim-Sen's İşbert urges concrete steps to provide appropriate facilities to make women join the workforce.

Prime Minister Objects To Women's Employment Quote

Prime Minister's description of women’s employment quote as harmful to women gets strong reaction from the women’s organization KA-DER as an attempt to ignore the historical discrimination against women.

28 November 2008 Emine Özcan

Strikes In Egypt: Female Workers

Factories in Egypt are now a battle front for the workers' rights movement that began in December 2006. Most of these events were led or initiated by women. They say “We don't want anything of the sort [feminist demands], we just want to have a good salary and a decent life for both of us, women and men.”

2 June 2008 Eman S. Morsı

Women Criticize The New Employment Law

KEİG claims that the new employment law does not address the real issues that will change situation radically in women’s employment and redressing the unfair conditions for the women.