Author(s): Ezgi ATALAY, Ayten DİNÇ
Social gender roles are influenced by social and cultural characteristics of a society. These roles have significant impacts on women’s social life, family life, and health. This cross-sectional and descriptive study aimed to identify social gender roles of Syrian refugee women and investigate factors related to women’s health which are assumed to affect their gender roles. The research was conducted with 580 women aged between 14-49 years at the reproductive age who were living at Yibo Temporary Refuge Center in Yaylada?? district of Hatay province between October 2017-January 2018. As measures, a questionnaire form and “Gender Roles Attitude Scale” (GRAS) were used. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA test, KruskalWallis and Mann-Whitney U tests on SPSS for Windows 22 software. Refugee women had a total score mean of 122.08±13.63 in GRAS, and their gender role attitudes were found to be egalitarian. Regarding the subscales of GRAS, refugee women were found to have equalitarian attitudes in relation with egalitarian gender role, marriage gender role, traditional gender role, and male gender role, but they were observed to have traditional attitudes in regard to the female gender role subscale. It was observed that differences were statistically significant between GRAS mean and median scores and women’s age group, marital status, educational level, employment status, and number of pregnancies (p<0.05). It is anticipated that this study will contribute to the improvement of awareness in preserving refugee women’s health and providing them with egalitarian gender role attitudes.
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