WOMEN IN SPACE STUDIES IN TURKEY: PROPOSITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES TO ELIMINATE GENDER DISCRIMINATION

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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 used semi-structured interviews with 13 women and men from aerospace related fields. Moreover, I became a participant observer for in an aerospace project. As a result, I found that women are discriminated due to their gender in aerospace field in Turkey. There exists glass ceiling, hiring inequalities, payment inequalities, promotion inequalities, inequalities of behaviors towards women and men, struggles due to maternity leave, not being respected as same level as men, alienation from social activities, daily talks and business processes, and defined gendered expectations in aerospace field. To address that, new fiscal and public policies are recommended, such as decreasing tax wedges, providing incentives for hiring more women, family benefits, providing incentives for childcare, defining target percentage of women for each institution, building gender-neutral institutions, redesigning gender sensitive working place, conducting activities to raise awareness about gender discrimination and how to solve it and so on.

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Gender Discrimination, Gender, Aerospace, Gender Equality, Policy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96316

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C. KORKMAZ, “WOMEN IN SPACE STUDIES IN TURKEY: PROPOSITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES TO ELIMINATE GENDER DISCRIMINATION,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.