Founding W20 Chair, 2015
For sustainable development of our countries we need to accomplish all the Sustainable Development Goals and especially the Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) Which targets achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls ( https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal5 ) “We stand beside you” movement (yanındayız derneği) centers on the active participation…
Annem Prof. Dr. Vecihe Hatiboğlu’nun hayatının hikâyesini kitaplaştırmaya ya da ilk taslağını yazmaya çalışıyorum günlük işlerim ne kadar yoğun olsa da bunu tamamlamak azmindeyim. Aslında bunu yapmak için de oldukça geç kaldım. Hayatta iken kendisine bir kaç kere söyledim birlikte yazalım diye. Hiç gerek yok sen kendi kariyerin ile uğraş…
W20 COMMUNIQUE 2023 Women-led Development Women 20 2023 (W20) calls upon G20 leaders to place women and girls as the drivers of the 2023 Presidency theme of One Earth, One Family, One Future – Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam For more information please find the W20 India Communique in this link
Women 20 2024 calls upon G20 leaders to: Implement actions to achieve women’s economic empowerment and gender equality commitments agreed to in the last nine G20 Leaders’ Declarations; Implement the 2014 Brisbane commitment (25×25) to reduce by 25% the participation gap of women in the labor force by 2025. According to the 2024 ILO/OECD Report, only…
When I was elected president to the board of KAGIDER (Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkiye), I thought I had to figure a successful way forward for our goal which was to include more women in the workforce as employees or entrepreneurs. I had to read all the reports and surveys.…
UN Secretary General HE António Guterres at his opening speech to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2024 made quite serious number of valuable comments. Though difficult to choose, I will quote here the ones I liked most: First one is “I am with you. I am…
Ülkemizde çok değerli yazar ve kitap var. Ancak, kitabım “Liderliğin Karanlık Yüzü” yayınlandığında Amerikalı duayen yazara “kitabım yayınlandı” dedim. Hemen “kaç sattı?” dedi. Ben de korkuyla “1000 galiba” dedim. Kitap toplam bine yakın satmıştı o tarihte. “O! Günde 1000 iyi bir rakam” dedi. Oysa günde 1000 değil toplamda 1000 idi…
ZEYNEP ECE ULUKAYA MODERATÖRLÜĞÜNDEKİ İŞ’İN SEYRİ PROGRAMININ KONUKLARI AYURVEDA UZMANI EBRU ŞİNİK, İŞ İNSANI GÜLDEN TÜRKTAN
I have been asked by several people what corporate governance is? I tried to explain over a dinner what it is. Later I was asked to make a speech about it. The concluding remarks were “now we understand it. Thank you!” Having worked in large corporations you have a good…
The economic empowerment of women is one of the most fundamental components of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment more broadly, if women participated in the economy identically to men, it would add up to USD 28 trillion, or 26%, to annual GDP in 2025 compared with a business-as-usual scenario;…
I am a proud lister of Forbes 50/50 of 2023. The first 50 means 50 selected women and the second 50 means I am more than 50 years old. Say 51 years old (!)… As I was listed as 50/50 by Forbes in 2023 in Europe, Africa and Middle East,…
The W20 India held its inception meeting on February 27-28, 2023, in Chatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly known as Aurangabad), Maharashtra. The speakers at the inauguration session were Dr. Sandhya Purecha, Chair of W20 India Mr. Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, India Dr. Bhagwat Krishanrao Karad, Minister of State for Finance, Government of…
Rural women offer great potential for all our futures simply because they are the cornerstones of our food safety and environmental protection. These women are workers without pay completely leaving aside the gender pay gap—but they are at the same time smart business partners and workers. For more information please…
Women 20 2022 (W20) calls upon the G20 leaders to ensure that women and girls are central to the 2022 G20 Presidency theme of ‘Recover Together, Recover Stronger’. W20 urge G20 leaders to: — Act on their commitments to implement the “G20 Roadmap Towards and Beyond the Brisbane Target”, also…
Dear All, I wish to start my speech with by thanking to the W20 Indonesian Presidency for inviting me and taking the topic of rural women into the agenda. In rural areas we have women judges, lawyers and architects and bankers and businesspeople who choose to live outside of the…
