Gender equality discourse and applications in Turkey: Comparative analysis

Gender is the sum of roles, values and meanings which was placed upon sex by culture and belief since the first human community. While this roles has been placed upon to both sexes, women have been the one who was affected more negatively. Women who have been discriminated by gender roles has started to search their places in society with feminist movement in 19. century. In 20th century in order to achieve gender equality countries has signed international deals and started to implement various practices. Gender perspective also exist in our country in various forms such as violence against women, honor, honor killings, glass ceiling. Especially the gender inequality in Eastern and South Eastern Anatolia is byproduct of being unable to integrate to modernity and eliminate feodal relations. In this thesis firstly development of gender in human history will be discussed, and then the first four countries Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Turkey which was listed by Word Economic Form's annually published Global Gender Gap Report (2020) for best gender equality will be examined for their practices and laws about gender equality. Later will be argued the discourse in Turkey, the situation of gender equality in education and answer for "Is it possible to achieve gender equality in Turkey?" will be discussed. Keywords: Discourse in Turkey, Gender, Gender Equality, Sex.