Abstract:

The fact that women are in the labor market affects both economic development and sustainable economic growth. Thus, social and economic freedom of women who start earning income by working increases. However, for this purpose various legal reforms in order to increase the participation of women in the labor force in Turkey and is driven projects could not be achieved to the desired location. Labor force participation rate of working women in our country is far behind compared to OECD countries. Among the main reasons for this situation is partially dominant gender-based perspective in Turkey, seen as the main task of the woman's child care and education level required for the job is not very adequate. In this study, the effect of female employment and female higher schooling rate on economic growth between 1988-2019 was examined. Time Series Analysis was made as an econometric analysis. First, the stationarity analysis was made. Then, in addition to the unit root tests, the unit root test with structural break was applied to the variables. After determining the appropriate lag length for the VAR model, Granger Causality test was performed. According to the results of the analysis, a one-sided causality relation was found from the number of employed women to GDP, and a two-way causality relation to the female higher schooling rate and the number of employed women.

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