Sosyal Bilgiler Alanında Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Üzerine Yapılan Tezlerin Değerlendirilmesi

This study aims to reveal the general characteristics of master's and doctoral theses on gender and/or women's studies in the field of social studies in Türkiye. Therefore, it is a content analysis study. It covers 33 theses conducted in 21 universities between 2008 and 2023. The data for the study consisted of theses titled ‘social studies’ and ‘gender or women’. These theses were analyzed in terms of year, university, researcher and supervisor characteristics, research methods, purposes, results and suggestions. Some of the results of the study are as follows: It has been determined that theses on gender and/or women's studies are increasing day by day in the field of social studies in Türkiye. These theses were mostly produced from master’s theses. Looking at the distribution of theses according to universities, it was seen that most of the theses were done in Gazi and Sinop Universities. Also, it was seen that the general purposes of the theses are generally textbook reviews. This creates the opinion that there are few practical theses in the courses. The results of theses are similar. In the textbook reviews in the theses’, it has been revealed that there are gender inequalities and discriminations between men and women, and the representations in the textbooks are presented in traditional roles. In addition, it can be said that the number of female researchers writing theses are higher than male researchers. But the supervisor are mostly men. The study is important in terms of directing future researchers to unique subjects in the field of social studies in terms of gender and/or women’s studies and preventing the accumulation of similar subjects in the field of social studies.