This study focuses on propensity to marry among women in Turkey and investigates how this is correlated with gender attitudes and status of women in public and private spheres throughout the marriage. Analyses are carried out in three stages using data collected in the 2013 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. First, the influential factors in transition of women from single to married life are determined using event history analysis. Second, two groups of women were constructed as women with high and low risks of marriage (women who marry earlier, and women who postpone marriage for ever-married women, respectively) with cluster analysis based on these factors. Finally, characteristics of these two groups were compared in terms of marriage type, participation in the labor force, household division of labor including childcare in the private sphere, and attitudes towards intimate partner violence. In the analyses of employment and domestic labor within the marital life, women were further grouped according to the stages of the family life cycle. The results of this study demonstrate that there is a clear dichotomy among married women in Turkey in terms of gender attitudes, and public and household labor. Factors related to risk of marriage is an important correlative of this differentiation. Higher intensity of marriage, i.e. marrying at a younger age, is associated with women’s lower employment with social coverage, less egalitarian values and more primary responsibility for the household chores within marriage. Co-existence of traditionality and modernity of women is a prevailing fact in Turkey. We humbly explore the implications of this revealed ideational and status-related dichotomy of women in Turkey within the framework of the second demographic transition, mainly focusing on its phenomenon of gender-role transformation.