Abstract
In this research, a comparative analysis of the gender inequalities between Turkey the member, candidate and potential candidate economies of the European Union is tried to be examined. To ensure equality and justice and to reach the level of the EU Member states in this regard, it is a necessity to reduce the gender inequality in society. Rather than comparing Turkey with all transition economies within the frame of the EU standards of gender inequality, it was decided to compare Turkey with the transition economies like itself that are EU Members, Member candidates and potential candidates. The Gender Inequality Index that was developed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was used in the aforementioned comparisons. Research results show proof that there are unfavorable differences in Turkey in regards to the comparison of gender inequality with transition economies that are EU members, member candidates and potential candidates. This result shows that Turkey has omissions in all components of gender inequality, categorized as health care, participation in political life, access to education and participation in working life. Therefore Turkey needs to reconsider all these categories and their indicators.
Highlights
Women have started to express their needs with the advent of developing feminist movement in the second half of the 19th Century and they have started to get organized and has acquired some rights in accordance with their needs
The Gender Inequality Index that was developed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was used in the aforementioned comparisons
Turkey is among the countries with lowest male education (60.0%). This point may lead to the idea that the low levels of education in both women and men are caused by education policies and it is independent of the social gender inequality
Summary
Women have started to express their needs with the advent of developing feminist movement in the second half of the 19th Century and they have started to get organized and has acquired some rights in accordance with their needs In this regard, one of the most iconic social and political struggle of the woman was to acquire the equal rights to elect and be elected. Even when women have pretty much the same rights as men does, because of the view that it is the women’s responsibility to raise children and do housework, they are either forced to double their labor or to withdraw from the labor market (Gökçek Karaca, 2013: 1) These unfavorable circumstances that the women and the girls face create the foundations of the gender inequality in the society. Purpose of this research is to compare Turkey with the member, candidate and potential candidate transition economies in European Union
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