Farklı Sosyal Kategorilerden Kadınların Toplumsal Cinsiyet Algıları

Abstract

The subject of the thesis is to examine the attitude and behaviour of two different categories of women in Turkey regarding womanhood roles, and to identify the similarities and differences. The purpose is to analyse to what degree the women with certain qualities –education, financial independence, career etc. – necessity for achieving equality of which has been argued and emphasized in the literature, differ from the women who do not have such qualities in realising equality and breaking the gender-based labour division.In order to compare the perception of these two categories of women, face-to-face semi-structured interviews were held with 26 women of middle-upper socio-cultural structure having at least a university degree, prestigious positions in work career on one hand, and 26 women of lower socio-cultural structure, at most high-school graduate, employed in lower levels of hierarchy, on the other.