Abstract:

Sex refers to the biological differences between man and woman whereas gender refers to the social ones. Gender studies focus on the different roles that are attained to man and woman by the society and on the different approaches that they face in daily life just because of their sex. This issue, which is known to have several reflections in social life, differs depending on time and space. One of the well-known reflections of it is the gender discrimination problems which tend to arise as a result of patriarchial structure of most societies. Violence against woman is one example of these discriminative behaviors and there exists many others, too. This piece of work handles one of these issues of gender discrimination which is child marriages. First of all, the issue of gender is analyzed from different perspectives and then child marriages are put under the spotlight. In the body part of the study, the reasons and results of child marriages both in Turkey and in the world are depicted by the help of some statistical data. In the conclusion part, some solution alternatives such as supporting the increase in education rates and finding out effective ways of fighting with poverty are presented.

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