WHAT CAN WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL WORK IN TURKEY TELL US ABOUT THE OPERATIONS OF PATRIARCHY ON WORK?

The world of 21st century, which is organized around the hierarchical relations of the two sexes, is still welcoming the subordination women. Women, who constitute sixty percent of world’s labour power, produce fifty percent of all nourishment, while having only one percent of world wealth and creating only ten percent of world income (Arat, 1998a: 21), are oppressed by patriarchy. If we leave aside th