What the city has to offer: urbanization and women's empowerment in Turkey

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buir.contributor.authorÇınar, Kürşat
buir.contributor.authorUğur-Çınar, Meral
dc.citation.epage263en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage235en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber14en_US
dc.contributor.authorÇınar, Kürşaten_US
dc.contributor.authorUğur-Çınar, Meralen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:02:10Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:02:10Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the relationship between urbanization and women's empowerment through the Turkish case. The article first tests statistically the overall impact of urbanization on women's empowerment by tapping into educational, economic, and political indicators at the province level. The results yield a positive relationship between urbanization and women's empowerment. We argue that these empowerment indicators demonstrate the necessary conditions of women's empowerment, yet whether these are sufficient for women to feel empowered needs to be further tested. To do so, the article utilizes an extensive original survey of 334 well-educated urban women in 43 out of 81 provinces of Turkey to examine the extent to which the results found in the quantitative section are paralleled by the actual experiences of women. The survey analysis reveals prospects and obstacles that well-educated women face in old and new urban centers. This nonrandom, purposive sample of seemingly empowered urban women shows that the barriers faced by these women would easily multiply when lower strata of society are reached. The Turkish case demonstrates that societal transformations such as urbanization have an imprint on the fates of women, yet further women's empowerment needs collective action at the political, legal, and societal levels.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCinar Kursat Kursat Cinar is European Union Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University, Turkey: kursat.cinar@bilkent.edu.tr Ugur-Cinar Meral Meral Ugur-Cinar is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University: meral.ugur@bilkent.edu.tr . Bilkent University Bilkent University The authors acknowledge the financial support of the European Union (Horizon 2020 - Marie Curie Reintegration Project: “Female Empowerment” - Project # 702073) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) (H2020 Success Award # 342617). They also would like to thank all survey participants in their research, including members of the Federation of Women’s Organizations in Turkey ( Türkiye Kadın Dernekleri Federasyonu ), Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey ( Türkiye Kadın Girişimciler Derneği ), Uçan Süpürge, Women’s Cooperatives Association ( Kadın Kooperatifleri Birliği ), Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects ( Türk Mühendis ve Mimar Odaları Birliği ). They also thank the three anonymous reviewers and the journal editor for their helpful comments on previous drafts. 11 05 2018 06 2018 14 2 235 263 Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2018  2018 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1743923X18000028
dc.identifier.eissn1743-9248en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-923X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/49974
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18000028
dc.relation.projectBilkent Üniversitesi - Horizon 2020: 702073 - American Political Science Association, APSA - American College of Healthcare Architects, ACHA - European Geosciences Union, EGU - 342617 - Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu, TÜBITAK - Bilkent Üniversitesi
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source.titlePolitics and Genderen_US
dc.titleWhat the city has to offer: urbanization and women's empowerment in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeReviewen_US
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