Job Search And Occupational Gender Segregation In The Informal Labour Market: The Case Of Beypazari, Turkey

In the 1980s, especially in the developed economies, tourism became a viable strategy to be competitive. The  tourism-led local economy of Beypazarı insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Turkey); is an important case, which has faced a booming of the  traditional food production sector, that in turn led to the gender based segregation of the female within the  sector. This study is designed to explain how social contacts influence the matching of jobs to female workers  with respect to gender structure and spatial and social relationships. The in-depth interviews show that job  search processes, especially community based social contacts, together with active role of municipality have  further segregated older, less educated, less skilled and cheaper female labour. Key words: Beypazari, informal female labour, job segregation, social networks, traditional food production, Turkey