The Support of Women Work within Cooperative Enterprises: Sample of Turkey

The cooperatives as universal principles are to achieve the purposes of established partners all over the world for business. This form of cooperation is not only for partners but also getting the benefits to constitute for Governments in alleviating the burden of job creation initiative at all. Besides being the most significant organisations symbolizing the social solidarity, cooperatives are established without any discrimination of society. In particulars, monitoring the perspective of women, to reduce unemployment, to evaluate the support of women at any age and in each region, home based working women provides important benefits, such as activate within cooperatives, starting women of the community is the best sustainable form with economic and socially desired direction.  In this study, basic information concerning cooperation is expressed and it is focused on the benefits received by women from cooperative organizations and from women cooperatives majorly formed by female partners. In this perspective, the areas where the economic and social benefits of women cooperatives for the whole community should be intensified are discussed by examining the present conditions of these cooperatives in Turkey and in the world. Moreover, the contributions of national policies regarding women cooperatives in Turkey to women entrepreneurship are explained and the significance of cooperation in women labor is expressed in this study.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Women, Cooperative, Woman’s Cooperatives, Turkey, Employment

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