scholarly journals Challenges Faced by Working Mothers in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Y. Sinan Zavalsız ◽  
Gülşah Göksu

This research deals with the advantages and disadvantages of the women who started to work outside the home with the Industrial Revolution in addition to the housework they were responsible for in the traditional period. With industrialization, the employment rate of women who began to work to support their family financially, gain economic independence and self-confidence, and fulfill their education requirements has increased exponentially to date. The research emphasizes that working women are stuck between their roles in working life and home. Expectations are increasing from the women who have started to take part in working life, and different roles are expected from her such as being a good wife, a good mother, a good housewife as well as being a good worker. The reflection of these expectations in families constitutes this study's main subject. The study aims to reveal how women working reflect on themselves, their children, their spouses, and their home from the working women's perspective. This study has emerged by interviewing 25 working women residing in the province of Karabuk, Turkey with a qualitative research model. The conditions such as being married and having at least one child were mandatory while assigning the research group's persons. Also, attention has been paid to ensure that the subjects included in the study work in different professions. As a result of the study, women have generally highlighted negative aspects of their work. However, the working women feel good with her contribution to home economics, has a separate economic income, and offering a better life for her children. The study shows that, despite the difficulties in working life, women who receive support from their spouses maintain a happier marriage. In contrast, those who have weak bonds with their spouses become lonely at home. At the same time, some women try to carry out this process with psychological support.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Georg Weigand

Advantages and disadvantages of the use of digital technologies (DT) in mathematics lessons are worldwidedissussed controversially. Many empirical studies show the benefitof the use of DT in classrooms. However, despite of inspiringresults, classroom suggestions, lesson plans and research reports,the use of DT has not succeeded, as many had expected during thelast decades. One reason is or might be that we have not been ableto convince teachers and lecturers at universities of the benefit ofDT in the classrooms in a sufficient way. However, to show thisbenefit has to be a crucial goal in teacher education because it willbe a condition for preparing teachers for industrial revolution 4.0.In the following we suggest a competence model, which classifies– for a special content (like function, equation or derivative) –the relation between levels of understanding (of the concept),representations of DT and different kind of classroom activities.The flesxible use of digital technologies will be seen in relationto this competence model, results of empirical investigations willbe intergrated and examples of the use of technologies in the upcoming digital age will be given.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Ezema ◽  
Azizol Abdullah ◽  
Nor Fazlida Binti Mohd

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved over time. The introduction of the Internet of Things and Services into the manufacturing environment has ushered in a fourth industrial revolution: Industry 4.0. It is no doubt that the world is undergoing constant transformations that somehow change the trajectory and history of humanity. We can illustrate this with the first and second industrial revolutions and the information revolution. IoT is a paradigm based on the internet that comprises many interconnected technologies like RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and WSAN (Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks) to exchange information. The current needs for better control, monitoring and management in many areas, and the ongoing research in this field, have originated the appearance and creation of multiple systems like smart-home, smart-city and smart-grid. The IoT services can have centralized or distributed architecture. The centralized approach provides is where central entities acquire, process, and provide information while the distributed architectures, is where entities at the edge of the network exchange information and collaborate with each other in a dynamic way. To understand the two approaches, it is necessary to know its advantages and disadvantages especially in terms of security and privacy issues. This paper shows that the distributed approach has various challenges that need to be solved. But also, various interesting properties and strengths. In this paper we present the main research challenges and the existing solutions in the field of IoT security, identifying open issues, the industrial revolution and suggesting some hints for future research.


AAOHN Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila T. Fitzgerald ◽  
Mary H. Palmer ◽  
Susan J. Berry ◽  
Kristin Hart

Until recently, the impact of urinary incontinence (UI) on working women, a population generally characterized as healthy, has not been the focus of research. Women employed full time at a large university center participated in a cross sectional survey about UI. Of the 1,113 women surveyed, age 18 and older, 21 % (n = 232) reported UI at least monthly. Incontinent women were significantly older and had a higher body mass index than continent women. Using disposable products, limiting fluids, avoiding caffeinated beverages, using voiding schedules, and keeping extra clothes or underwear were strategies used to manage UI at work. Responses to an open ended question related to the impact of UI on working life included: interference with sleep and resulting fatigue at work, embarrassment, alteration of concentration, and emotional distress. Implications for nurses are discussed in relation to assessment, education, and management of UI in the occupational setting.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Bommer

Collective immunity to emancipation policy Collective immunity to emancipation policy Through qualitative research it will be identified how part-time working mothers are related to the current emancipation debate. Increase in employment participation as a policy goal, has become dominant in the emancipation policy of the Cabinet in recent years. That women with children now largely work part-time does not ensure the economic independence, which the Cabinet and feminists had in mind. Research from Portegijs and Keuzekamp (2008) has shown that women follow their personal beliefs regarding the performance of the childcare role. That stimulating Cabinet measures are not heard by part-time working women, is a sign that the emancipation policy does not adequately meet the needs of women themselves. Economic motives count limited for the choice of women to provide care. Idealistic motives are decisive. The importance of a proper development of children is their first concern.


Author(s):  
Nivedita Agnihotri

Women are an integral part of our society; they have to play diverse role to contribute in economy. Harmonious growth and development of any nation is possible only when women are equally participating in the development process with men. However, in most of the developing countries, the socio-economic status of women is very low. In this paper, we provide a literature review to compared the working and non-working women in household decision-making, using secondary data. We find out that woman’s decisions making power is clearly related to the context in which she lives. It is observed that decisions made by working and educated women get greater substance than the decisions taken by non-working and less educated women. However, Urban and employed women have greater awareness about their rights than rural and illiterate women. In the previous studies, most women are deprived of economic and educational roles opportunities and decision-making. Decision-making of women is controversially as low as the roles and responsibilities of each sector while their male counterparts have relatively high decision-making. Furthermore, we find out that electronic media is also playing an important role behind the women empowerment, since it provides information to women about the world issues, which encourages their self-confidence and motivates them to participate in household matters.


2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avni Zafer Acar ◽  
Cemal Zehir

Resource‐based view and the positioning theory are the two main approaches which are considered as contrary to each other in order to achieve competitive advantage and superior business performance. In this study, the main subject is to harmonize these two theories with a research model which is based on the assumption that business strategy is more effective when pursued with related capabilities. To perform the study, we conducted a questionnaire survey with 445 owners/executives of manufacturing firms. We measured business capabilities in terms of management, production, marketing‐sales, information system, logistics and external relationship dimensions. Component factors and key variables for the constructs, which are identified through a literature review, are confirmed using AMOS 16.0. Then data have been analyzed to test the hypothesis by using SPSS 15.0. As a result, separate and harmonized effects of business capabilities (BC) and generic strategies (GS) on business performance have been examined. Santrauka Ištekliais pagristas požiūris ir pozicionavimo teorijos yra du pagrindiniai požiūriai, prieštaraujantys vienas kitam siekiant konkurencinio pranašumo ir aukščiausio verslo efektyvumo. Pagrindinis šio tyrimo objektas – minetuju teoriju suderinimas taikant tyrimo modeli, kuris grindžiamas prielaida, kad verslo strategija yra efektyvesne, kai vykdoma atsižvelgiant i verslo galimybes. Tyrimui parengta anketine apklausa. Apklausti 445 gamybos imoniu savininkai ir (arba) vadovai. Vertintos verslo galimybes pagal valdyma, gamyba, rinkodara, pardavima, informacine sistema, logistika ir išorinius santykius. Sudetiniu veiksniu ir pagrindiniu kintamuju sudetis, nustatyta remiantis literatūros apžvalga, patvirtinta taikant AMOS 16.0. Norint tai patvirtinti hipotezemis, buvo analizuojami duomenys naudojantis SPSS 15.0. Galiausiai buvo tiriamas atskiras bei darnus verslo galimybiu ir bendru strategiju poveikis verslo efektyvumui.


Computers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Cavalieri ◽  
Marco Giuseppe Salafia

In the context of Industry 4.0, lot of effort is being put to achieve interoperability among industrial applications. As the definition and adoption of communication standards are of paramount importance for the realization of interoperability, during the last few years different organizations have developed reference architectures to align standards in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. One of the main examples is the reference architecture model for Industry 4.0, which defines the asset administration shell as the corner stone of the interoperability between applications managing manufacturing systems. Inside Industry 4.0 there is also so much interest behind the standard open platform communications unified architecture (OPC UA), which is listed as the one recommendation for realizing the communication layer of the reference architecture model. The contribution of this paper is to give some insights behind modelling techniques that should be adopted during the definition of OPC UA Information Model exposing information of the very recent metamodel defined for the asset administration shell. All the general rationales and solutions here provided are compared with the current OPC UA-based existing representation of asset administration shell provided by literature. Specifically, differences will be pointed out giving to the reader advantages and disadvantages behind each solution.


1999 ◽  
Vol 83 (496) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
G. T. Q. Hoare

Prodigiously talented with a remarkable flair for anticipating correct results and initiating fruitful areas of research, Stanislaw Ulam (‘Stan’ to his friends) was an unusual mathematician. The considerable breadth of his preoccupations, even in the halcyon days of his youth in Poland, distinguished him from his peers. Sustained by a supreme self-confidence, Ulam preferred pioneering new fields of mathematics to elaborating the ideas of others. Indeed, impatient with detail he tended to leave technicalities to those with whom he collaborated. Uprooted from his native Poland in his twenties, Ulam was to spend two thirds of his working life associated with or employed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.


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