"Turkey: Looking East for inspiration Mehru Jaffer While visiting her daughter in America, Derya Keskin Demirer's mother chided her for leaving the dishes for the husband to wash. Luckily Derya's husband is a 'natural' feminist. Although he is from Turkey, he does not mind helping in the kitchen. 'We both work outside the home and share work in the house too,' says Derya who could not understand why her mother made a fuss. Now that Derya, 37, has returned home from America to live and to work in Turkey, she faces numerous other contradictions inherent in a society that is modern in many ways but continues to practice discriminatory traditions."
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