Turkey Country Gender Assessment 2017
Gender equality is a core development objective, and it is also a smart development policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender gaps a country faces across dif...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/476491625118695424/Turkey-Country-Gender-Assessment-2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35974 |
| Summary: | Gender equality is a core development
objective, and it is also a smart development policy. Gender
equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty
reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender
gaps a country faces across different domains, contributes
to better inform policy design. To that effect, this report
seeks to identify where progress has been achieved regarding
increasing opportunities for women and men in Turkey and
where further policy action is required. It focuses on three
areas that are critical for gender-equal access to
opportunities, namely endowments such as health and
education; economic opportunities, such as access to labor,
land and financial markets; and agency, including norms,
representation, and freedom from violence (World Bank 2016).
The report takes advantage of different sources of publicly
available data for the country, including the World Bank’s
World Development Indicators (WDI), the Global Financial
Inclusion (FINDEX) Database, the Business Environment and
Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), the World Health
Organization (WHO) Statistics, as well as data from the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), and others. National surveys by the Turkish
Statistical Institute include the Income and Living
Conditions Survey (SILC) 2015, the Turkish Labor Force
Survey (LFS) 2016 and the Household Budget Survey (HBS). In
addition, the Ministry of Family and Social Policies (MoFSP)
and Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies
conducted the National Research on Domestic Violence against
Women in Turkey. The Turkish Demographic and Health Survey
(TDHS) collected by the Ministry of Development (MoD) and
Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, and
the Research on Family Structure in Turkey (TAYA) by MoFSP
were also used. The report aims to provide a panorama of the
prevailing gender gaps and areas for work to close those
gaps in the country, covering a wide range of outcomes. As
such, it seeks to serve as a guiding document for policy
action and dialogue, further research, and public discussion. |
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