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The Relationship Between Gender and Poverty in Rural Areas of Turkey

September 2014

September 2014

Conference: 25th International Scientific-Experts Congress on Agriculture and Food Industry
At: İzmir
Volume: 1

Authors:

Burak Öztornaci

Cukurova University

Müge Kantar Davran

Cukurova University

Püren veziroğlu

Cukurova University

In this study, the concept of poverty was observed in terms of rural and gender perspective derived from secondary data. The women living in rural area have more disadvantages than the women living in urban areas and all men to reach the socio-economic resources and so they cannot develop themselves. In the other hand, because of the agricultural transformation (men' migration for job, job seeking out of farm etc.) in developing countries, only women undertake the full burden of rural areas (production, reproduction, and socialization). However, most of these women work as unpaid family labor and finally feminization of agriculture and poverty is converted to sustainable phenomenon.

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