Women in Turkey still face significant challenges to gender equality, including domestic violence, honor killings, and restrictive patriarchal social norms. While the Turkish constitution bans gender discrimination and Ataturk's early reforms granted women political rights, women have much lower levels of employment and education than men and Turkey ranks relatively low on measures of gender equality. Interviews with Turkish women indicate that some still face pressure to marry young, adhere to traditional gender roles, and comply with religious expectations imposed by family.

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2. The role of women in contemporary Turkey is defined by an ongoing gender equality
struggle, contributing elements of which include predicate conditions for EU
membership candidacy, prevalent political tides that favour restrictive patriarchal
models, and woman's rights activism. Women in Turkey continue to be the victims of
rape and honor killings; furthermore research by scholars and government agencies
indicate widespread domestic violence in Turkish population. Despite Turkey being a
patriarchal society, there are many historical records of Turkish women involved in
public life and activism

3. Women in Turkey also face significant disparities in employment, and, in some regions,
education. The participation of Turkish women in the labor force is less than half of that
of the European Union average and while several campaigns have been successfully
undertaken to promote female literacy, there is still a gender gap in secondary
education and an increasing gender gap in higher education

5. Discrimination based on gender is banned by the Turkish constitution. The Turkish
feminist movement began in the 19th century during the decline of the Ottoman
Empire. The ideal of gender equality was embraced after the declaration of the
Republic of Turkey by the administration of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whose modernizing
reforms included a ban on polygamy and the provision of full political rights to Turkish
women by 1930

7. Also In 2018, Turkey ranked 130th in the World Economic Forum gender gap index out
of 149 countries

9. and let’s hear from the interviews
interview . A :my parents are forcing me to marry after i finish high school. but ı don’t
want to marry
interview . B :my parents gets mad at me all the time because i’m not “girly enough”
interview . C :my mom is forcing me to do house work because i’m girl….. but my brother
doesn’t do any house work
interview . D : my dad is forcing me to wear hijab and i’m not even muslim