TY - JOUR AU - Ertan, Senem PY - 2021/05/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Comparative Analysis of Gender Equality Policies in Muslim Countries JF - Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Women's Studies JA - JWS VL - 19 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.33831/jws.v19i1.269 UR - https://ojs.emu.edu.tr/index.php/woman2000/article/view/269 SP - 43-73 AB - <p>There is a common Western scholarly tendency to see Muslim countries as a uniformed culture when considering gender equality and women’s rights issues. This article analyzes the variance of gender equality policies between Muslim countries while questioning those arguments and the arguments that see Islamic religious heritage as one of the most powerful barrier to gender equality in the world. For this aim, this study uses new original scales of gender equality policies developed to measure the scope of gender equality policies around the world. These scales facilitated us to comparatively analyze gender equality policies in 84 countries, 20 of which are Muslim countries. Analyzes of this study demonstrates that there is a significant variance of gender equality policies between Muslim countries. Moreover, empirical evidence provided by this study also shows that Muslim countries in general adopts worse gender equality policies than non-Muslim countries.</p> ER -