
TEPAV: Women’s employment shrinks in Turkey in January 

2021-04-19 12:23:16


	NEWS CENTER - The Economy Policy Research Foundation has released its Employment Monitoring Bulletin, which shows that women’s employment has narrowed by nearly 81 thousand in the last four months amid COVID-19 measures against the second wave.

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	The Economy Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) has released the 104th issue of its Employment Monitoring Bulletin.

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	The bulletin has underlined that employment in the sectors negatively affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is still continuing.

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	There has been a striking shrinkage in the employment of women since November 2020, according to the TEPAV bulletin. The number of insured women employees has increased by 201 thousand when compared to the previous year; however, the rate of women among all insured employees dropped from 31.3 percent in early 2020 to 30.7 percent in January 2021.

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	The TEPAV has noted that women's employment has dropped amid the restrictive measures taken against the second wave of the pandemic and it has narrowed by nearly 81 thousand in the last four months.&nbsp;