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Rights activist İlkkaracan: Turkey needs urgent initiative on gender equality
Activist and researcher Pınar İlkkaracan has said Turkey needs to work harder in order to reverse some downward trends in women’s participation in public life, and for that to happen it should start an initiative, complete with budgetary allocations and time and target-bound measures.
“To be a woman”
Mixed emotions on Women’s Day in Eastern Europe
Many people, especially those above 35 living in Eastern Europe, still associate 8 March with the old official Communist celebrations, with faded red cloves and drunken men ‘celebrating’ Women’s Day. But gradually the day, which symbolises female emancipation, has gained new legitimacy, a tour of the EurActiv network reveals.
by UĞUR PAMUK VIA
A Long Road to “Equal”: A Glimpse at the Status of Women in Turkey
Turkey should be praised as being one of the first countries to enfranchise women (in 1934) and for making equal rights for women a key part of the Ataturk reform era. At the same time, the status of women in Turkey seems to be getting worse on a number of fronts. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, Turkey came in 129 of 134 countries surveyed, consistently falling in the rankings over the past years. And, according to the UN Development Program’s Gender Empowerment Measure, Turkey ranked 101 out of 109 countries surveyed, placing Turkey, the 17th-largest economy in the world among countris far less developed.
Five leading women outline visions for Europe 2020
To celebrate Women’s Day, EurActiv asked five prominent women to set out their visions for the future of the European Union. Starting with Dalia Grybauskait?, president of Lithuania, these successful professionals are symbols of the economic, political and social achievements of Europe’s women.
Women: reflections on our human rights,
Equality Report: Once More a Confession of Failure for Turkey
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In Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1st call for international womens day in 1910, we are making an online reader’s edition of our new book, Wings & Dreams: 4 Elements of a New Feminism, accessible here.
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