Gendered patterns of higher education in Turkey: Advances and challenges

- Turkey has a low glass ceiling index in HE with high female participation rates in male-coded fields & among the professors
- Advances in gender parity in academic careers are attributed to historical and social factors
- NETFA project conducted by 7 Turkish universities help to shed light on the gender disparities and imbalances in academia
- Traditional family ideology and gender division of labor, remains much the same in the academic world
- Gendered values associated with academic career contribute to the advancement of women in the profession and also obstruct it