Strategies developed by women in poisoning poverty: A case study on women making bread in tandoor as a case study(Van city center example)

In recent years, the phenomenon of poverty in the headlines of underdeveloped, developing and even developed countries has become the fate of almost all countries. In the history of humanity, the phenomenon of poverty, which appears as a problem that exists and is always sought, affects all individuals living in the country. However, the phenomenon of poverty is perceived in different ways from country to country, from society to society and causes different effects on individuals. Emerging in Turkey as a country is experiencing high levels of poverty phenomenon and affects individuals in different countries. However, the adoption of a more patriarchal structure of society in Turkey and religious norms that prevail in society, gender roles determined by society has left women more vulnerable to poverty than men. With the changing social structure, changing the structure of the family, increasing the divorce, increasing the rate of having children out of wedlock and looking at women by women, decreasing the rate of employment of women, condemnation of women to private areas such as women's home, the exploitation of women's labor in informal sector and unskilled jobs. the factors triggered women's poverty. In this context, women have developed different struggles against the phenomenon of poverty and combating this poverty has added a different field of work to women's poverty. In this study, the strategies that women have developed in the fight against poverty have been emphasized. The field study of the study was carried out in the neighborhoods located in the outer periphery of the city center of Van, Socio-economic level of the inhabitants living in these neighborhoods were contacted through the Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations affiliated to the district governorships. The main problematic of the study is whether baking tandoor bread, which is an activity carried out by the poor women residing in the seneigh borhoods, within the household, it was to determine whether this activity affected women's health, and most importantly, whether this activity, which was also addressed in the traditional context, was a struggle against poverty or a tradition.