CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Yumakli, Tugba |
|---|---|
| Title | Familialism, Welfare State Regimes and Women's Access to Paid Work: A Comparative Study between Hungary and Turkey |
| Summary | The main objective of this work is to dig up the interplay between welfare state regimes and their possible implications for women’s access to paid work. Relying on the argument that the type of welfare state regimes arises as an intervening variable in shaping women’s opportunities and prospects in the labor market, it assumes that the state can affect women’s economic activity level through deliberate policy interventions, whatever other social, economic or cultural factors affecting their participation in the labor force are. In this work, I concentrate on two countries with two very different welfare state regimes, which both are problematic in terms of women’s participation in the work force. Therefore, I will try to find a common mechanism by extracting the possible familialistic and gender-biased dimensions of social policies in Hungary and Turkey. To analyze the direction of these social policies, I will use Sigrid Leitner’s typology of “varieties of familialism” focusing on the concept of defamilialization. However, by adding social security systems to this theoretical framework, I will adopt a broader perspective which will help to take the country specific conditions into account. The application of the theory to my case studies show that Turkey can be labeled under a gendered implicit familialism model, whereas Hungary fits to a gendered optional familialism model. Thus, the work concludes that neither of the two states pursue a social policy path encouraging women’s access to paid work. |
| Supervisor | Duman, Anil |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/yumakli_tugba.pdf |
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