Trends in Female Employment at the Federal Government Level: A Critical Appraisal of 1983–1989

This paper focuses on two aspects. First, it looks at the trends in female employment at the federal level over a period of six years, from 1983 to 1989, based on data from the Federal Government’s Civil Servants Census Reports, using three years, 1983, 1986, 1989. The second aspect of the paper is to highlight the fact that not all the information that is collected is published gender-wise. This is very important from the point of view of working women as it can also have strong policy implications with regard to the advancement of women for which the Government has set up a separate ministry. The ignorance of the Ministry of Women’s Development about this aspect, that is, of available unpublished information, is surprising. The paper is structured as follows. After a brief discussion of data and methodology, the results are presented in Section 2. Section 3 discusses the data which are collected but not published at the disaggregate level which has adverse implications for women employees at the policy level. The conclusions and policy recommendations are presented in the final and fourth section of this paper. The data used in this paper are taken from the Government of Pakistan (1983, 1986, 1989). The statistics reported in these reports are classified by service groups into Secretariat, Attached Departments, Subordinate Offices, Other Offices, and in the Autonomous/Semi-Autonomous bodies by Basic Pay Scale (BPS) and gender. The Censuses show that for these years no female employee of the regular civil service is reported in BPS-22 for all the categories, and also none is reported in BPS 21 in 1989.

Kajian terhadap minat kerjaya di kalangan pelajar di Sekolah Menengah Teknik Pengkalan Chepa

Kajian ini dijalankan untuk melihat minat kerjaya di kalangan pe!ajar. Seramai 95 orang pelajar telah dipilih secara rawak mudah dan sebuah Sekolah Menengah Teknik Pengkalan Chepa di daerah Kota Bharu. Mereka terdiri daripada pelajar-pelajar tingkatan empat yang terdiri dari pelbagai jantina, bangsa, persekitaran tempat tinggai dan latar beiakang ibu bapa. Instrumen kajian yang digunakan iaiah Career TH/'ere-sV 7/?ven/orp (CII) dan &yD;rec^eJ&arc/! (SDS) yang telah diterjemahkan ke daiam Bahasa Melayu. Data-data yang diperoiehi diproses secara statistik deskriptif dan inferensi yang bertujuan untuk mengukur dan menguji hipotesis-hipotesis yang dibina dengan menggunakan min, anahsis varian sehata (ANOVA) pada aras signifikan 0.05 dan anahsis korelasi Pearson pada aras signifikan 0.01. Hasil kajian menunjukkan pelajar-pelajar cenderung daiam orientasi Intelek dan Daya Usaha. Keputusan kajian menunjukkan peiajar-peiajarmeminati bidangjurutera, ah!i perniagaan, melanjutkan pelajaran dan kesenian. Hasil kajian juga menunjukkan tidak ada perbezaan yang signifikan minat kerjaya pelajar-pelajar daiam bidang-bidang CII dan SDS dari segi jantina, bangsa dan persekitaran tempat tinggai. Dari segi hubungan, hasil kajian menunjukkan wujud hubungan yang signifikan daiam pemilihan kerjaya dengan tahap pendidikan ibu bapa

Yeşilçam Film Posters of the 60s and 70s: Representing Romance

Cinema and movie poster have the most powerful potential of establishing the ethos and mythology of people, and both assume an audience on the premises of a cultural context within which they are produced. So a movie poster contributing to mass communication through designed visual means contains a lot of information about film industry, evolution of design, craftsmanship, and the taste of the artists and society as well as standing for a strong evidence of its time. The decade 1965-1975 is important for Turkish cinema for being the golden years of this industry. Besides all the good memories associated with these posters, they indeed involve the history of Turkish cinema, graphic design as well as Turkish society. The great deal of labour involved, resulting from the poor resources of the period; design elements, typography, composition, the mistakes; all reflect the characteristics of then-Yeşilçam. Going over an archive of posters and with the help of interviews with designers, cinema historians and labourers, the article focuses on the relationship of design with the industry, technology and society. The Yeşilçam movie posters are analyzed through the methods of iconography as well as reception theory. And therefore as well as exploring their graphic and visual characteristics they would be placed in the context of the social life, the conditions of the movie industry in Turkey, the character of Yeşilçam Melodrama and evolution of Turkish movie poster. After a detailed research and observation, four categories are revealed as the most frequently seen types among the Turkish melodrama posters, according to the kind of images in relation to specific themes and concepts and the design schemas they use. These are “star posters”, “beefcake posters”, “phallic woman posters”, and “posters of movement”. The paper goes in detail how these categories are formed and their significance and their relation to the creation of the concept of romance. Keywords: Yeşilçam melodrama; film poster; graphic design; romance</p

Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Exposure in the Turkish Economy

This paper examines the impact of exchange rate variations on the export prices and the profitability of the firms, at sectoral and at firm level respectively, in the Turkish manufacturing industry for the period 1995-2007. The data set consists of export unit values, bilateral exchange rates, total revenues, cost of goods sold, value of domestic and foreign sales, and Turkey's export trade partner's GDP's and CPI's. The results show that there is a tendency for local currency price stabilization. The average estimate of exchange rate passthrough to export prices is around 0.6. There is a mixed evidence on the relationship between exchange rate variations and profitability. It is found an apparent variation in the magnitude and direction of exposure across firms. However, these results are not robust to the specification used.Exchange rate, Exposure, Pass-through, Industry

"Predictors of Trust in Buyer-Supplier Relations: A Contextual and Cultural Comparison of Japan and Turkey"

Trust is a dimension of buyer-supplier relations being researched widely, but studies have generally focused on developed economies. Developing countries, however, have contextual and cultural factors that may differentiate them from developed countries. This study attempts to apply a theoretical model developed for the US, Japan, and Korea to a developing country context, namely Turkey. While Turkey has cultural similarities to Japan in terms of collectivism and risk aversion, the results of the theoretical model show that is does not fit the Turkish case. Suggestions are made to extend the model theoretically and measurement-wise to help explain trust building factors in developing countries.