Çalışanlarda Kadın İş Gücü Algısı

Abstract

Gender is the cultural and the social role that the society attributes to human beings starting from birth besides biological and physical qualities. Gender is also the main source of discrimination between male and female sex. Sex discrimination that is mostly against women is an important problem which affects all societies' development level and welfare. Especially in business life, this problem is seen frequently and it causes women to have many difficulties. And that's why, many women prefer not being in business life and they choose to live according to the social role that the society attributes to them. This research has been conducted to see the perception of workers about women workforce and it is based on the importance of negative effects which are brought to business life by sex discrimination. With this aim, a questionnaire has been filled in by 314 worker of which are 121 women and the rest are men who all work in public services. Frequency, ANOVA and T-tests have been applied to the results on SPSS 16.0 programme. As a result, it has been seen that in business life mostly women are experiencing sex discrimination. Also, according to the results there is a popular wisdom about complications which hinder promotion of women and there is a general perception that the most important duty of women is being a mother and a housewife which are all attributed to women by society. Lastly, meaningful differences have been seen when the hypotheses of this research have been analyzed in terms of gender, education level, marital status and age. Key Words : Women workforce, sex discrimination, gender.