THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL WORK AND GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN TURKEY
TÜRKİYE’DE SOSYAL HİZMETİN TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYET EŞİTLİĞİ İLE İLİŞKİSİ

Author : Derya ŞAŞMAN KAYLI
Number of pages : 135-142

Abstract

As part of social right and social justice, these are social works’ essential points to understand how the inequalities in society created and to make the petitioners be aware of this inequalities and empower them to take the initiative of their lives in their own hands and to contribute the modification of social politics to improve their social welfare. Nowadays it is still a troubled process of women, who held in contempt like no other caste and who can not make benefit of social resources equally and who exposed to violence, harassment and rape, to acquire their social rights properly and to build a life with their own initiatives. Women, who comprise the half of the society, have difficulty in exercise their birthrights and make benefit of social resources because of their gender. The perspective of gender mainstreaming shows us the connection between power and potency that creates the social inequalities which women are exposed to. From this viewpoint, this article is about, the relationship between gender mainstreaming and social work , which based on right and justice to reform the inequalities that women are expose to because of their gender.

Keywords

Gender, Social Work, Patriarchal İdeology, Social Policy, İnequality, Discrimination

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