A minimum age for marriage was fixed at 15 for girls and 17 for boys. The right to vote for women was granted at the municipal level in 1930 and nationwide in 1934. Turkish women demanding the right to vote The charter of the International Labor Organization adopted in 1951, declaring equal wages for both sexes for equal work was ratified by Turkey in 1966. Still today, the husband is the head of the family. A woman does the housework, and if a woman needs to work outside the home she has to get the approval of her husband.
Women leave the outside world to the men, generally remaining in the home.
Women get married at an earlier age than men and settle into their role of housewife and home maker. As the education level of women increases, the fertility rate decreases. Nearly every female university graduate has only one child. 9 million of the 21 million working population of Turkey are women. In the rural areas, the rate of working women, especially in agriculture, is very high.