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Merih you are completely off the mark! The thing about equality is having the OPTIONS to CHOOSE what you want out of your life………..just like a man does. The RIGHT to make your own choices and have those choices be of equal value to your male counterpart.
Not one person here has said a woman who chooses to stay home is less valuable than a woman who chooses to work! 
I want to tell you a story.. about perception:
The real owners of Australia, the Aboriginals were treated badly by the first immigrants, sent out of their lands for a long time. Then the Australian government understood that they were wrong, and in an attempt to higher their living standards, they gave every family a house. And you know what the Aboriginals did, put their belongings and some of their animals in the house, and they slept in their garden, under the open sky... like they always did.
So, can you tell me that they are uneducated, undeveloped because they did not want to live in the house like the other people does?
So the point is:
Being educated doesn´t necessarily make you equal to man.
Given a choice and financial support, do you think all the girls and women in Turkey will run to Uni´s and start working?? I don´t think so.
And who says, if you are not educated or working, you can´t make choices for yourself and your family?
And, the very important fact we should not forget:
RIGHTS ARE NOT GIVEN, THEY ARE TAKEN.
Turkey is a country to give the Women their rights long before any other country did. And yet this is not valued, because they did not fight for it. Nobody suffered, unlike the European countries. So today´s women in turkey is fighting to get the value of it. But until the society changes and their mind set improves, nothing can be changed.
I started this topic, as the first article was telling facts about the number of women in the Parliament. And I do sincerely believe, when a women works hard, and really wants, they can do it. But, having said that, I don´t think the number indicates a discrimination aginst women, but shows how much women are into politics. And by the way, may be half of the voters are women, why don´t they vote for a women?????
In Australia, until 1980´s a woman getting pregnant before 18 was something unacceptable. The girls would be put in a monastry until due date, and then the baby will be given for adoption without asking for mother´s content. And today: a woman can choose to be a mum by herself, and the society accepts it.
Finally, we don´t have to be equal, because, as i always we are not the same thing as man. but we have to cooperate and value the meaning of women, and value what ever they are, and they do. this is I believe the only way we get the "equality".
By the way, did anybody notice that, no male member is contributing to this topic, and we women, as usual are fighting with each other.
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No one is perfect duh. one can cover frm head to toe with cloth or fake tan but still what´s inside that matters. Ataturk is a superb political leader he gives women the right on how to practise their beliefs..Turks have free will to some point in history after he passed away...and then the ban on headscarf at some premises came about some 20 years ago.
do small businesses etc. Dont look down on burqa women femme. Many are educated but its their personal choice to be housewives(they are satisfied with what they have and dont feel the need for another source of income.. Being materialistic is not in their hearts) There are those who are talented or have great skills too. Just imagine this..for example.. if they can sew their own children´s clothes.. when the child goes to school and the teacher ask who bought it for him.. he can proudly say his mother sewed it lovingly for him. i personally find that rewarding.
It doesn´t make any sense.
we need new topics