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Yıl: 12 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 29 Temmuz - Aralık 2012
Table I.
Poverty Rates in Turkey According to Gender and Educational Status
of Household Members between 2005 and
Educational Status
2005 (%) 2006 (%) 2007 (%) 2008 (%) 2009 (%)
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
TURKEY 19,97 21,01 17,32 18,27 17,33 18,26 16,70 17,52 17,10 19,03
Household members
who are younger than
6 years old
Illiterate or literate
without a diploma
27,86 27,56 25,12 24,43 24,91 24,10 22,86 22,18 22,87 25,27
30,94 31,92 27,73 28,34 29,13 28,88 30,77 30,31 30,34 29,52
Primary school 19,92 14,51 16,52 12,05 15,87 12,68 15,91 11,22 16,86 13,83
Elementary school 21,79 23,02 16,47 19,66 19,79 18,55 18,67 15,66 17,19 18,39
Secondary school and
equivalent vocational
school
High school and
equivalent vocational
school
University, faculty,
masters, doctorate
9,72 5,62 9,69 4,89 11,06 5,57 9,85 5,78 10,89 7,82
7,98 5,14 6,06 4,05 7,05 4,09 6,00 5,11 5,71 4,76
0,83 0,72 1,28 0,56 0,97 0,53 0,88 0,43 0,92 0,40
Source: TURKSTAT, 2010b
Table II shows the labour force participation rates of women and men. This table
presents explicitly that participation of women into labour is considerably low. Interestingly,
the gap between women’s and men’s labour force participation rates widens
enormously in urban areas compared to rural areas. In parallel with the findings of
Table II, Graphic I on unemployment and gender relation and Graphic II on gender
related unemployment in non–agricultural sectors reveal that women in Turkey experience
a higher level of unemployment than male counterparts. Especially in nonagricultural
sectors, female unemployment rate surpasses male unemployment rate
dramatically. Low unemployment rate among the women in Turkey is considered to
represent “…a rare exception to the worldwide increase in female employment in
that during the last two decades…” (Bugra and Yakut, 2010, p.518)
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