Özet:

The employment rate for women is lower than the employment rate of men in Turkey. The main reasons for low female labor force participation are traditional prejudices, women's inability to balance their work and family roles, lack of equality of educational opportunities, effects of migration, low wages, fertility and high number of children and so on. The fact that the responsibilities of women at home are an indispensable part of life which leads to the reflections of these responsibilities on business life. And this leads employers to be prejudiced about the idea that women will have low productivity. It is common in our society that the primary duty of women is home responsibilities and the weight and intensity of those responsibilities would be reflected in the workplace. The prejudice that such responsibilities would decrease the productivity in their jobs leads employers to make women as secondary choice when they hire. In our society, it is thought that it is more suitable for men to get a job by working in traditional families and to work in income generating jobs. The roles that are suitable for women are the works aimed at ensuring the continuity of the works related to home life such as maintenance, cleaning and cooking. Women being compassionate, prone to nurses, teachers, and so on, if they have reached a certain level of education. If their education level is low, they are hired as cleaning staff, agricultural worker, packaging worker, tailor, child care, and so on. Job associations in our society shape the working life and play a role in the classification of occupations by gender. This limitation may also cause women not to enter working life. In this study, the gender - education - occupation relationship, the reasons of women's inability to participate in employment, and the problems they experience in employment have been examined using the TurkStat labor force statistics.

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