Women in engineering education in Turkey: Understanding the gendered distribution

Date

2002-01-01

Author

Zengin-Arslan, B

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

190
views

0
downloads

The average percentage of female students in engineering departments in Turkey of 25% in 1998, allows its to argue that women are capable of representing themselves in this field to some extent. However, a detailed examination reveals that the distribution of female students in engineering departments is not even: they are more greatly represented in some departments than others. It can be argued therefore that women in Turkey have a reasonable opportunity of being represented in the field of engineering, which has been a male dominated area nevertheless they exist in this realm with respect to their gender roles. In other words, areas that can be described as 'masculine' engineering departments and feminine' engineering departments have been affected and the decisions of female and male students in their choices of departments have been affected by this configuration. In this article, I firstly provide the data revealing this uneven distribution of women in different engineering departments of the universities in Turkey. Then I start investigating possible causes of this gendered distribution with an emphasis on the discursively constructed 'Masculine' and of engineering departments. This assessment is an outcome of the interviews that I have conducted with 15 women engineers from February 2000 to April 2000 in Turkey. Their experiences during their educational period with institutional structures and individuals such as professors and the other students, and their discourses on 'engineering' and their own departments are emphasized.

Subject Keywords

Education, scientific disciplines, Engineering, multidisciplinary

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63950

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Collections

Department of Sociology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

WOMEN IN SPACE STUDIES IN TURKEY: PROPOSITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES TO ELIMINATE GENDER DISCRIMINATION KORKMAZ, CANSU; AYDINOĞLU, Arsev Umur; Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies (2022-3) Main purposes of this thesis are to understand the contributions of women in aerospace studies in Turkey and see whether there exists any gender discrimination, gender-related challenges that women face with and gender disparities in aerospace field in Turkey. For that end, I identified the scholarly contribution of women to aerospace-related fields in Turkey in graduate theses and dissertations and TUBITAK-funded research projects by detailed literature research. I resort to qualitative research design. I ...
Gendered engineering culture in Turkey: construction and transformation Pehlivanlı Kadayifci, Ezgi; Ecevit, Fatma Yıldız; Department of Sociology (2015) In this study, I aim to understand gendered aspects in professional culture of engineering and its transformation in contemporary Turkey by using a theoretical tool called "Gendered engineering culture”. Deriving from the results of this study, I argue that engineering profession has a prestigious image in Turkey’s society. This image has transformed due to economic and political changes. Secondly, engineering profession in Turkey is based on gendered codes and ideals. These codes mainly adress male enginee...
Women and the city: female empowerment in the world, 1960-2014 Çınar, Süleyman Kürşat (Informa UK Limited, 2019-01-01) It is vital to understand the structural and institutional dynamics behind female empowerment as its realization benefits not only women but also society at large. Drawing on an original, global-level dataset that covers 169 countries between 1960-2014, this article mainly explores the effect of urbanization onwomen's empowerment throughout the world. The article argues that urbanization has distinctive effects in different realms of female empowerment in politics, economics, and education, with the biggest...
Women’s changing experiences with patriarchy during rural transformation of Turkey: a case study in a central anatolian town Avanos Gönüllü Atakan, Ayşe; Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe; Department of Sociology (2014) This thesis is a qualitative study on women’s changing patriarchal experiences after 1980s during rural transformation process of a central Anatolian district –Avanos- from a feminist perspective. The main argument of this research that patriarchy and capitalism are the main sources of women’s oppression today, and a change in one affects the other closely. According to the findings of the research, the organization, control and intensity of both productive and reproductive labour of women determine the pat...
Gender differences in academic performance in a large public university in Turkey Dayıoğlu Tayfur, Meltem (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2007-02-01) The paper attempts to determine whether there are significant gender differences in academic performance among undergraduate students in a large public university in Turkey based on three indicators; university entrance scores, performance in the English preparatory school and in the program the student is majoring in. The paper finds that a smaller number of female students manage to enter the university and when they do so, they enter with lower scores. However, once they are admitted to the university, t...

Citation Formats

B. Zengin-Arslan, “Women in engineering education in Turkey: Understanding the gendered distribution,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION, pp. 400–408, 2002, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63950.