Deniz Kandiyoti (born 15 March 1944)[1] is an author and an academic of research in the fields of gender relations and developmental politics in the Middle East, specifically Turkey.
Kandiyoti's early work focused on political economy and rural transformation, but then moved towards gender, nationalism and Islam.
[4] Most recently, her research has “returned to exploring the politics of gender in Muslim-majority societies but from an even broader comparative perspective” which involves Afghanistan and Uzbekistan as well as Turkey.
In 1988, she coined the term patriarchal bargain, describing a tactic in which a woman chooses to accommodate and accept gender roles that disadvantage women overall but maximize her individual power and options.
The major areas of research during that time for UNRISD were poverty eradication, promotion of democracy and human rights, gender equality, environmental sustainability, and the effects of globalization.