H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2018

Female Empowerment · “The Role of Urbanization in Female Empowerment: the Turkish Case in Comparative Perspective”

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-04-01 → 2018-03-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 157 846 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-RI

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Влиянието на урбанизацията върху възможностите на жените в образованието, икономиката и политиката се анализира чрез примера на Турция. Това помага да се разберат пречките пред равенството и какви политики са нужни, за да се намали неравенството в патриархалните общества.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

“The Role of Urbanization in Female Empowerment: the Turkish Case in Comparative Perspective”

The project proposed to tackle the issue of gender inequality throughout the world, especially in male-dominated, patriarchal societies and pinpoint the ways to enhance women's empowerment in the areas of education, economics, and politics. The project mainly analyzed these issues under urban settings in which women acquire new benefits yet they still cope with existing and/or new challenges. The world is urbanizing very fast and this societal change brings about revolutionary changes in the social fabric of many nation-states. By focusing on the Turkish case in a comparative perspective, the project studied the impact of urbanization on women's empowerment in patriarchal societies. The project found out that women have major gains thanks to urbanization against all odds in male-dominated societies such as Turkey. However, without supporting women's struggles with appropriate nation-wide institutional framework and policies and an overhaul of societal relations that favor men, the project argued that it is impossible to fully eradicate gender inequality in patriarchal societies even with structural changes such as urbanization and modernization. The project had three main objectives: a) exploring the socioeconomic, political, and demographic dynamics behind women's empowerment, especially the opportunities deriving from societal changes such as urbanization b) finding out the obstacles against women's empowerment in patriarchal societies and offering policy recommendations to overcome those obstacles for more egalitarian societies c) bringing fresh perspectives to the study of women's empowerment in the world conceptually and methodologically

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Female empowerment is perceived both as a policy tool for the betterment of overall welfare of the societies, as well as a policy target both in Europe and throughout the world. However, women still lag behind men in education, economic affluence, and political representation in many countries, even in some of the most “developed” ones. The proposed project aims to shed light on the dynamics behind female empowerment, specifically focusing on the role of urbanization. Modernization and industrialization bring about several advantages for many women such as better education and livelihoods, better say for themselves and their children, and fairer political representation. Yet, urbanization remains insufficient to eradicate the extant problems that women have faced and creates new challenges and obstacles for many. The proposed project argues that female empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-level phenomenon that calls for such a research strategy and hypothesizes that urbanization has a complex, non-linear effect on female empowerment. To better understand the concept at hand and pinpoint the ways to enhance it, the project incorporates country-, local-, and individual-levels of analysis. The project also combines the strengths of quantitative and qualitative techniques to offer a fuller picture about female empowerment. The main focus of the project is the relationship between urbanization and female empowerment in Turkey, while it also provides a comparative global-level analysis with clear implications for Europe. The proposed research aims to make novel contributions to the feminist studies, urban studies, development studies, and democratization literatures and enhance the competitiveness of European research. In addition to its academic merit, the project also has policy implications aimed at policymakers for future policies and projects, as well as the society at large which could be implemented throughout Europe.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

BILKENT UNIVERSITESI VAKIF · Bilkent AnkaraКоординаторТурция