Role of Women in Turkish Economy

Elif Nuroğlu is an associate professor of Economics at the Turkish-German University. She graduated in Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2004 and received her PhD from University of Vienna in 2010. Her research fields are International Economics, Gravity Model, Neural Networks, Empirical Economics and Labor Market Economics. Çiydem Çatak works as an assistant professor of Finance in the Department of Business Administration at the Turkish-German University. She received her MA and PhD degrees in Accounting and Finance at Marmara University. Her fields of specialization are Corporate Finance, Banking, Entrepreneurial Finance and Financial Economics.

• Gender equality – Female labor force participation – Wage gap – Representation of women – Harmonization policies – Economic development – Senior roles – Educated women – Decent work – Glass ceiling – Sectoral distribution – Gender effect – Married women – Gendered preferences – Fertility