Studying sex equality in employment from cross-national and comparative perspectives poses a
challenge to dominant ethnocentric understandings of gendered forms of employment
discrimination. Studying Turkey and Britain in this context is very important as they represent the
margins of the European cultural and physical geography and comparative analysis of their
experiences of sex equality in employment is educational for both practitioners and academics.
Seeking to provide such a comparative analysis, this paper is organised in three sections: First, a
brief historical account of sex equality in Turkey and Britain is offered. Secondly, the paper
explores the present national agendas of sex equality in terms of legal frameworks, national
machineries and organisational approaches. Finally, comparative evaluation and conclusions are
presented. Identifying common and divergent patterns of sex equality, the paper offers insights into
how greater equality may be achieved in both countries. Following the structure of this paper, the
Table One presents a comparative overview of sex equality issues in Britain and Turkey