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Women comprise only seven mil- working in technology, engineer-
lion in Turkey’s 37 million working ing and management is low and
population and one in five Turkish there are hurdles to hiring women
women lives in poverty. According for production departments. We
to the World Economic Forum’s established “Equal Borusan Social
Gender Equality Index, women Equality” platform to tackle these
hold only 18% of administrative issues.
positions in Turkey.
Women empowerment efforts of
According to Turkish Government Borusan took its place in World
statistics, the rate of women em- Bank’s sister organization Interna-
ployment in 2017 was 33.5%. In tional Finance Corporation IFC’s
Borusan Group, women employ- Tackling Childcare: “The Business
ment rate is also low in technolo- Case for Employer-Supported
gy, engineering departments and Childcare report” (pages 112-129)
within top management, as in gen- among 10 best practices of the
eral Turkey. world.

Borusan Holding develops its pro-
jects in the belief that the women
empowerment in economic and
social life is a prerequisite of a
sound economy, a more equal so-
ciety, development, sustainability,
human rights, and a rising quality
of life.

Borusan was elected and invited to
be a member of the UN Women’s
Empowerment Principles Leader-
ship Group in 2015, becoming the
first and only Turkish company to
achieve this status. Through its
work on women’s empowerment, it
has become a leader of the cause,
not only in Turkey, but the world.

As in Turkey overall, the number
of female employees at Borusan

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