THE EXAMINATION OF GENDERED HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION IN TURKIYE: WOMEN WORKER’S EXPERIENCE OF VIOLENCE AND THEIR COPING STRATEGIES

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2025-4

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Ertem, Elif

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The neoliberal structuring of healthcare system and workplace violence in Turkish healthcare sector not only deepen the existing gender inequality problems experienced by women healthcare workers, but also prevent them from accessing institutional mechanisms to cope with their problems and reinforce structural barriers. From this perspective, this study adopts Joan Acker’s gendered organization and Ruth Lister’s gendered citizenship framework to show women workers’ experience of violence and their copings against it in the healthcare sector. To investigate gendered citizenship within gendered organization, semi-structured in-depth interviews with thirty-five FHCWs and expert interviews with two representatives of healthcare workers have been conducted through feminist methodology. All women worker experience WPV because of gender, but the study focuses on intersectional dynamics among women. The findings shows that although there are some similarities between women’s experiences, their occupational status, work experience and age bring some differences between women’s experience and copings. All women tend to become silent and adopt avoidance as copings against violence because of lack of institutional support. Experienced women tend to cope with WPV through negotiation, informal mechanisms and avoidance while less experienced ones tend to cope with it through formal procedures. Young women workers are more affected compared to established ones who tend to internalize organizational logic and have relatively more power. In sum, although women seek formal support through advocacy seeking, they have limited access to their citizenship rights in work settings especially in the case of workplace violence and support seeking process.

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coping strategies, gendered organization, gendered citizenship, women workers, WPV

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114153

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis