7 million women work in Turkey

Organized for the sixth time this yr, Garanti Financial institution, in cooperation with the Economist Journal and the Women Entrepreneurs Affiliation of Turkey (KAGIDER). ”Turkey’s Women Entrepreneur Competitors”Awards discovered their homeowners.

Talking on the award ceremony, Garanti Financial institution Deputy Normal Supervisor Nafiz Karadere stated that they noticed greater male employment in enterprise life as a result of conventional patriarchal construction of the nation.

“7 MILLION BUSINESS OWNERS OUT OF 29 MILLION WOMEN”

Expressing that the variety of women entrepreneurs is beneath the requirements of developed international locations, Karadere stated, “Turkstat figures for 2011 present that solely 7 million of the 29 million women who’ve the potential to work in Turkey have the chance to work. This desk additionally reveals how nice our labor potential is, which has not but been evaluated. We positively discriminate towards women and help their entrepreneurship in order to show this potential into a possibility. he stated.

”A extra women-friendly, extra dynamic economic system”

KAGIDER Chairman of the Board Gülden Türktan additionally acknowledged that being a girl entrepreneur in Turkey means being exterior of patriarchal patterns, “Being a girl entrepreneur in Turkey means succeeding in spite of the household and generally the partner when mandatory. Going past social judgments and norms means reworking the system. That is why transformative energy in competitors is so necessary. The facility to make our nation’s economic system extra women-friendly, extra dynamic and fairer truly comes from you, the ability of the entrepreneur. he stated.

Rauf Ateş, Editorial Director of Capital, Economist and PCnet magazines, stated that the competitors began with the participation of some feminine entrepreneurs. “Now we’ve got reached 6,000 figures. Nevertheless, in addition to the numerical development, one other necessary growth ought to be underlined. We at the moment are seeing an increasing number of women beginning firms in what was as soon as thought of ‘males’s enterprise’. Furthermore, they take part in the competitors with bigger turnovers in comparison with the previous.” gave the knowledge.

In the meantime, in the evening, Nurcan Özdemir, proprietor of Epsa Yalıtım Ambalaj Development Chemical compounds, ”Turkey’s Women Entrepreneur” obtained his award.

Yasemin Kalya, who made Mardin stone well-known, ”Lady Entrepreneur Making a Distinction in Her Area”; Gülay Özgön, together with her enterprise offering genetic laboratory providers, ”Promising Feminine Entrepreneur” was awarded the prize.

”Turkey’s Women Entrepreneur” Özdemir, who was elected, 20 thousand liras, ”Lady Entrepreneur Making a Distinction in Her Area” Kalya, who was deemed worthy of the award, obtained 15 thousand liras. ”Promising Feminine Entrepreneur” Özgön, who was deemed worthy of the award, additionally obtained a financial award of 15 thousand TL.