Routledge The Economics of Gender Equality in the Labour Market: Policies in Turkey and other Emerging Economies (Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics)

This book evaluates the global labour market in the context of gender equality, and the associated policies and regulations, particularly in developing markets, to recommend measures for encouraging gender equality. It exposes the barriers that women employees encounter as well as some of the societal and workplace policies they, specifically, are subject to. Important themes within this topic include participation rates, the looming gap in hourly pay, availability of part-time and full-time positions, value, and social status associated with jobs held by men and women. The book examines how global gender policy objectives, such as gender equality in careers, gender balance in decision-making, and gender dimensions in research, can be incorporated into policy frameworks. The book analyzes the gendered nature of assumptions, processes and theories. The juxtaposition between family and work, tradition and modernity, and dependency and autonomy, clearly still seems to be misunderstood. Therefore, the book asks whether work improves women’s positions in society and/or changes their roles in their families. The authors explore and uncover the connections among employment, entrepreneurship, migration economies, and gender global labour markets and provide helpful solutions to the perceptions surrounding women’s status, risks, and inequality that limit their economic participation. This insightful read provides comprehensive details on a variety of themes and encourages further research on policies that are key to promoting gender equality. The book will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers of labour and feminist economics, the economics of gender, women’s studies and sociology. About the Author Meltem İnce Yenilmez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Yaşar University, Turkey; Research Associate at Five College Women's Studies Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Visiting Researcher at Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. In addition to her academic positions, Meltem’s career includes work in the impact of various forces of economics and social change on the constitution of gender relations and women’s empowerment. Her expertise encompasses cyclical patterns of female employment and wage differentials to discrimination, care work and employment patterns in developing countries as well as issues related to gender and development. Aside from the two books she has published, her work also includes women in sports, occupational segregation and gender wage gap. Gül Ş. Huyugüzel Kişla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Ege University, Turkey. She completed her undergraduate study, MA and Ph.D. in Economics at Ege University. She worked at Yaşar University from 2007 to 2009. Afterwards, she joined Ege University as academic staff. She has been working at the same university since 2009. Currently, her primary research interest is macro finance, labor productivity and currency crises.