Abstract
AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ CİNSİYET EŞİTLİĞİ POLİTİKALARI KAPSAMINDA AB EBEVEYN İZNİ DİREKTİFİ VE TÜRK ÇALIŞMA MEVZUATINDA DOĞUM İZNİ
Although it is a fundamental human right to work and ensure their economic independence, it is not yet possible to say that women have the necessary equality of opportunity to participate in employment. It can be said that there are many social and sociological reasons why women are excluded from employment. The first these reasons; Social norms hold solely women responsible for domestic services, women are experiencing an unbalanced burden, work, and family life. All over the world, many texts are produced, and many policies are run to eliminate women are exposed to inequality. European Union is a global leader to human rights and especially women rights. EU who is economically based establishment since founded, approaches to women rights in economical fundamental. And target of EU is increasing the women participation to employment. For these targets, EU attach importance to policies for harmonizing work and family life. In EU, about harmonizing work and family life many social policies are run and many directives are prepared. An important instrument for these policies is leave which is given to employee who is have a child. Leave due to birth expressed in terms containing subtle differences such as maternal leave, paternal leave, and parental leave. Leave due to birth is show up itself as parental leave in EU law. In this study, term of the leave due to birth is how take place in EU directives and national law of candidate country Turkey; Based on the difference between the concepts of maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave, it has been tried to be analyzed comparatively.
Keywords
Gender Equality, Parental Leave, Women's Rights, Equality of Women and Men in Employment, Harmonizat
