Women in Higher Education in Turkey: What Has Changed in 100 Years?

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2020-04-01

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Çevik, Aylin
Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe

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In Turkey, women acquired the right to obtain higher education in 1914. Women’s demand for higher education, the increased number of high schools and the needs of teacher-training schools for girls led to an increase in the number of women in higher education over time. After the nation-building process in 1923, new universities were opened across the country and the number of women in higher education has increased from 22 (0.73%) (in 1914) to 3 675 986 (47.5%) (in 2018-2019). Within this framework, this paper aims to explore how female students’ profiles have changed over the last 100 years. What is the social make-up of the female students who enrolled in universities nowadays? What are the differences and/or similarities among women who attended the universities as first women students and those of today? Drawing on the Eurostudent Survey IV (2011), these questions are elaborated regarding women’s socio-demographic, family and educational backgrounds. Outcomes are discussed within the context of the modernization history of Turkey.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72934

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Yükseköğretim ve Bilim Dergisi

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https://doi.org/10.5961/jhes.2020.366

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Department of Sociology, Article

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A. Çevik and H. A. Hoşgör, “Women in Higher Education in Turkey: What Has Changed in 100 Years?,” Yükseköğretim ve Bilim Dergisi, pp. 45–55, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72934.