One million women in Turkey have quit their jobs over the five-year period from 2010-2015 as a result of the duties bound to childcare, in addition to 112,000 others who have quit their jobs to care for the elderly, according to a study, Hürriyet Daily News reported.
The study has also found that 1.2 million women have quit their jobs upon the request of their husband in 2007, a figure that dropped to 588,000 in 2015.
Some 45.6 percent of women are paid less than 1,000 Turkish Liras per month, but this rate drops to 31 percent for men, the study has found.
