Prof. Dr. Hacı Duran: Women are in favor of flexible working

Emphasizing that despite the positive orientation of women's work to promote women's participation in the business life never reached the same level of men Prof. Dr. Duran made evaluations on the reasons for this. Prof. Dr. Duran said: “Contemporary forms of work, practices and conditions are opposed to motherhood and domestic work. Working conditions and forms should be corrected in favor of women. In many industrialized countries, research on women found that women do not want to work full-time jobs and are in favor of flexible working order.”

Giving examples from a study conducted in the US, Prof. Dr. Duran said: “According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of mothers working in full-time jobs in 1997, 50 percent in 2007 and 47 percent in 2012 indicated that they did not want to work full-time. In the same study, the percentage of women who accepted full-time study was 30 percent in 1997, 20 percent in 2007 and 32 percent in 2012. Those out of these two categories stated that they do not want to work outside the home”.

“FEMINIST IDEOLOGIES HAVE SERIOUS CONFLICT”

Indicating that class differences are effective in the participation of women in business life and in it was proved many scientific studies, Duran said: “The feminist and counter-feminist ideologies contain serious contradictions within themselves on the subject. Women's participation in business life turns into a discourse of power and this hampers women's working conditions. Feminist ideologies alienate the natural tendencies of women and mothers and drown the discourses of power. In all societies where pre-industrial traditional production relations were effective, women's participation in work life was never a problem. Because in these societies women were working effectively in work life. Women's pre-modern social and economic positions did not become problematic in these societies”.

Saying that, as the family income increased, mothers' tendency to work outside the home also decreased, Prof. Dr. Hacı Duran added: “This finding also suggests that mothers want to work with family motives. In other words, the working woman wants this action for the peace and economic power of her family rather than her own individual freedom”.

Noting that the law concerning the protection of the family in Turkey, only dealt with the context of violence against women, Prof. Duran said that the issue is closely related to the regulation of working conditions of women and mothers in favor of them. Professor Dr. Hacı Duran stated that women's family loyalty is higher than that of men, but the working conditions partially fetter women to fulfill these demands.