The ordered logit model and structural equation modeling in women issues on working life

According to OECD countries in 2011, the employment rate of women is the lowest rate is 27.8 percent in Turkey. In 2012, the ratio of housewives is 61.3 percent, the females not in labour force. In Turkish Statistical Institute's data of year 2012, when it is asked why women are unaccepted to work, nearly 60 percent of both women and men's answers are that primary duties of women are child care and houseworks. By thinking of these problems, the questionnaire in Appendix-1 is applied to 250 women in City of İzmir, Gaziemir County, Dokuzeylül Area. 221 practicable data are acquired from these applied questionnaires. By using Attitude Scale on Labor Force Participation of Women (ASLFPW), the attitude on work life participation of the women is determined. In accordingly created structural equation model, it is seen that internal and external factors has an important effect, which hinders the participation of labor force, on the negativity of working from the point of women. Then, the relationships between the satisfaction of work of the 114 women, which are working from the 221 participations, and marital status, education, parental education, maternal education and age variables are examined by using ordered logit model, and it is determined that there is a relationship between satisfaction of work and education and parental education. As a result, two models has been applied about the working issues of women and interpreted.