Yoksulluğun kadınsılaşmasının çalışan ve çalışmayan kadınlar üzerindeki farklılığı: Bilecik ili örneği

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Kocaeli University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, SİYASET BİLİMİ VE KAMU YÖNETİMİ ANABİLİM DALI, Turkey

Approval Date: 2021

Thesis Language: Turkish

Student: PINAR EBE GÜZGÜ

Supervisor: Tuba Kancı Doğan

Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection

Abstract:

Poverty is one of the most important problems that persist throughout the history of humanity. Many reasons, such as war, famine, and epidemics trigger poverty. Poverty was previously equated with materiality only, and the understanding that poverty would be eliminated with aid was dominant. However, the fight against poverty has gained a new state by addressing poverty together with gender inequality. Especially in the 1980s, the increase in struggles against women's poverty and gender inequality made women's poverty visible. Women encounter unfair treatment in the public sphere, in the households, and the business sphere. And, these unfair treatments cause to exclusion of women from the public sphere and this situation induces feminization of poverty. In this thesis, the concept of women's poverty is examined through in-depth interviews, the causes of female poverty and the awareness of women's poverty are analyzed. The analysis is based on the capability approach put forward by Amartya Sen, with focusing on the intersectionality of poverty and gender inequality problems. These interviews are occurred in Bilecik with 10 working and 10 non-working women. The analysis is conducted under four main categories; whether women are aware of the poverty they face; the effect of their working status on women's poverty; the relationship between patriarchy and feminization of poverty; and the relationship between women's poverty awareness and politics. In this study, it is examined that are there any relations between women's employment and poverty and whether working or not affects women's awareness of poverty. Although there is little awareness of women's poverty in general, it has been found that working women are more aware of women's poverty and gender inequality as a result of entering the public sphere compared to non-working women. In addition, it was determined that the interviewees had difficulty in establishing a link between women's poverty and poverty due to the fear of damaging social norms, being radical, and seeing inequality as normal. Key Words: Poverty, Feminization of Poverty, Gender, Capability