Birth and employment transitions of women in Turkey: The emergence of role incompatibility

Abstract: Background: The available evidence on the relationship between fertility and employment among women in developing countries paints an ambiguous picture. In Turkey there have been considerable structural changes since the 1960s, related to the incompatibility between women’s roles as mother and worker. Objective: This study analyzes the two-way relationship between employment and fertility in Turkey over a 35-year period, including the correlates of the risks of first, second, third, and fourth and higher-order conceptions, and of the transitions from non-employment to employment and from employment to non-employment. Methods: The study adopts piecewise constant exponential event history modeling using data from the 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, mainly its event history data on ever-married women. Results: There is a two-way negative association between fertility and employment among women in Turkey. The characteristics of jobs that favor compatibility between worker an

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Demographic Research ; 39 (2018) ; 1241-1290

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2018
• Creator: Abbasoğlu Özgören, Ayşe ; Ergöçmen, Banu ; Tansel, Aysıt

Further information

• DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.46
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-77134-2
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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