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... Gender roles which refer to the proper behavior of men and women, and arrange relations between sexes are shaped in respect of culture. In Turkey, different gender role contracts reign differently for women in urban and rural places because urban and rural places have different subcultures. Although laws gave equal rights with men in the public field, women still have difficulties in accessing to these rights because in Turkey, laws searched for its modern women although women should have searched for their laws. Since women themselves did not get their own rights, they could not have them when given because of their gender roles. Traditions which differ from place to place speak and say different rules in Turkey. ... In this research paper, gender roles of women in Turkey are taken up and examined in different regions where different cultures are lived.
The project of modernity which started just after the foundation of the Turkish Republic brought a new role model for Turkish women. The 1926 Civil Code replaced the shari’at and gave women equal access to the public field with men. ... Some women benefit from this project and became successful in the public field.
Even though Kemal Ataturk’s reforms gave women and men equality, Turkish society had difficulties to accept this. Feminists state that the structure of gender roles limits women’s access to the public field (Arat, 1996). For example, although the Turkish Civil Code gives women legal equality to vote and to be elected to parliament in 1934, a woman, Tansu Çiller, was the first to become the Prime Minister of Turkey barely in 1993.
Approximate Word count = 1320
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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