Very interesting reading...

'...A report for the World Economic Forum late last year showed Turkey still lags far behind Europe in practice - 105th out of 115 countries, in terms of gender equality.

'The idea that Ataturk saved women and that the job is already done in many senses held Turkey back. People fell into passivity,' argues Nigar Goksel, analyst with the European Stability Institute in Istanbul. It has just produced a report on the role of women here.

'Economically and politically, women's participation is still terribly low. Twenty-eight percent of women of working age work and the majority are unpaid. 'They work the family fields and milk the family cow. That does not necessarily empower them.'

The figures for politics are starker still. Just 4.4% of the current parliament are women and in local politics that figure is less than 1%. But at this election efforts are afoot to change all that.... '

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6903021.stm

(sorry for the mistyping of "Institute" - I can't amend it!! )

who can wait a different result from a feudal and patriarchal society,but i bet we will win this problem in a new future with more developing,more democracy and more education..And i believe that our great country will be more powerfull when the women rights get enough and when we saw our women in social,economical and political life more ,coz our country really need women productivity on each area more and more day by day.