Özet:

Feminism arose in an attempt to build the women’s position against men on more substantial basis, and to make it possible to remove the inequality between women-men. Therefore, it has influenced several areas as women’s movement, interrogated and transformed women’s place both in private and public areas since the 18th and 19th centuries. It is observed that with the first wave feminist movement which struggled for women’s right of vote, right of participation in administration, going into all professions, and naturally right of education, and with the second wave feminist movement; the govenment, business area, education and more areas have been shaped by the concept of social gender. Within this context, in the study made on the basis of feminist theory, providing social gender equality in social, political and economical areas has been emphasized; and women’s current position in the areas of political representation, employment and education within the context of Turkey has been described by making use of statistical data.

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