Women and Girls contributor: Dominique Bonessi https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/contributor/dominique-bonessi/rss en After High School, Women in Turkey Struggle With Degrees and Careers Education Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:20:12 +0000 Dominique Bonessi https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2016/12/13/high-school-women-turkey-struggle-degrees-careers https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2016/12/13/high-school-women-turkey-struggle-degrees-careers Around 40 percent of Turkish women go to university, but only 11 percent graduate. Activists say a range of obstacles, from gender bias in high school to cultural pressures, pushes women out of education and widens Turkey’s workforce gender gap.