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his article analyzes strategies developed by middle class mothers to establish balance between their work and care responsibilities in Turkey where no extensive public services are available and childcare is socially and culturally constructed as women’s sole duty with a limited male involvement. The fieldwork of the study is based on accounts of in-depth interviews conducted with nineteen working middle class mothers in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara.

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This page is a summary of: Balance between work and family life: Middle class working mothers in Turkey, fe dergi feminist ele, January 2016, Ankara University,
DOI: 10.1501/fe0001_0000000157.
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