a seminar-women in turkey

Funda Oral fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr
Wed Mar 8 01:53:24 PST 2006


I personally am not very much interested in woman-man issues. 

My experience is that one completes and creates the other.   

I don't especially admire women who take place in the below mentioned seminar.

I am against "any drive to exercise power on others with whatever identity "....

but still i wanted to send you this just as a piece of information.  

Funda

PRESS RELEASE : Women in Turkey : A success case for the European business world. 
Istanbul/Brussels/Berlin/Paris - March 7: Every day life of women in Turkey differs substantially from the stereotypes, which predominate in the Western European countries. 

That women in Turkey enjoyed voting and election rights already in 1934 - long before most women in Western European countries - is perhaps a known fact. Also that Turkey had a female head of government and ministers of foreign affairs, interior and economy long before most of the European countries. 

However, there are also some unknown facts on women in Turkey. Various public agencies and NGOs have taken the lead to design and implement women entrepreneurship programs in Turkey. In Germany, 7 per cent of all self-employed are women, whereas in Turkey whereas in Turkey these are twice as much (14.2%).

In Turkey, the ratio of women in professions that require specialization is pretty high. For example, the high proportion of women engineers and bankers in Turkey has always been a striking observation for business people from other European countries visiting Turkey. “36% of university academicians; 33% of architects; 29% of lawyers; 32% of economists; 21% of top and middle executives at public management bodies are women” says Ms. Ümit Boyner, Member of the Board of Boyner Holding and the Turkish Industrialists’ & Business Association (TUSIAD). 

Not only small companies are managed by women in Turkey, but also the biggest ones like Sabanci and Yasar Holding. Ms. Güler Sabanci, who is the boss of 30.000 employees and responsible for a yearly turnover of seven billion Euro shrugs off: "I have worked hard, received encouragement and I was at the right time at the right place." Ms. Sabanci, member of TUSIAD, is simultaneously one of the most powerful women in Turkish business and is also a role model for the European business women. 

“We are convinced that by virtue of EU accession and especially with the adaptation of the EU policies on employment strategy, gender disparities in employment will be eliminated more rapidly" says Ms. Feyhan Kalpaklıoglu, member of TUSIAD, Chairwoman of Izmir based Yasar Holding. 

"Women in the urban regions of Turkey are surely as emancipated as their counterparts in the EU countries. The pictures in the heads of most EU citizens are wrong", Ms. Arzuhan Yalçindag, TUSIAD Board Member and a Dogan Media Group top executive prognoses. She underlines that “there are still differences between the urban regions and the poorer regions, especially in the East of Turkey. However, change is underway. Turkey's EU membership process is a significant driving force behind the progress in gender equality issues.”

For more information: 

Dr. Bahadir Kaleagasi
TUSIAD - Turkish Industrialists’ & Business Association
Representative to the EU and UNICE - Brussels
T: (32) 2 736 40 47 F: (32) 2 736 39 93 kaleagasi at tusiad.org
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S E M I N A R
ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrates for Europe

WOMEN IN TURKEY

WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH 15.00 – 18.00


EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
ASP 3G3, Rue Wiertz 60, 1047 Brussels


PROGRAMME

15.00 Opening remarks 
Graham Watson, President of the ALDE Group 
(Alliance of Liberals and Democrates for Europe)

Moderator 
Karin Riis-Jorgensen, Vice-President of the ALDE Group

Current Situation and Challenges Ahead
Semiha Oyuş, Member of the Turkish Parliament
Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, CEO of Doğan Media and TUSIAD Board Member
Zeynep Göğüş, Journalist 
Ümit Boyner, CFO of Boyner Holding and TUSIAD Board Member
Luisella Pavan-Woolfe, Director, European Commission 

Coffee break

Equality in Business Life
Feryal Menemenli, Chairwoman of Doğa Industrial&Trade Company
Paul Skehan, Deputy Secretary of Eurochambres

Conclusions 
Karin Riis-Jorgensen, Vice-President of the ALDE Group

18.00 RECEPTION : Salon des Membres, ASP Ground Floor


FOR REGISTRATION
Please contact krappsjo at europarl.eu.int 
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