The Posts aren’t Occupied by Much Women in Turkey
“There are many examples where women are represented by only a woman. Business life, music, art and media…women rarely surpass men numerically.”
Elle UK, showed how representing women’s equality is bad with a video on its feminism-themed November issue.
The magazine omitted the males from the meeting and council photos or banners and drew attention to the females who constitute the half of the world’s population are represented by only one female member through a decision mechanism.
Elle UK editors said they wanted to change the existing situation that pushes women off and wanted to create an environment of dialogue.
Women don’t even constitute 20% of the parliaments
According to the report of World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2014, women don’t even constitute 20% of the parliaments in all over the world.
Turkey is on the 98th rank among 142 countries within the field of gender equality in parliament. Women constitute 17.6% of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in 25th Term of Parliament. It was 14.3% last year.
UN never had a female secretary-general
United Nations is 70 years old and the new secretary-general will be elected in 2016. 8 people have been elected to this position until now from Ghana, Norway, Peru, Egypt, Myanmar and Korea… All of them were males.
Organizations like Amnesty International, CIVICUS, Equality Now, Social Watch, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Avaaz, started a campaign “1 For 7 Billion: Find The Best UN Leader”.
Males discuss on the TV
Male participants on the TV don’t pertain to Turkey. In TV shows, women rarely participate or they seldom host and if she is the only guest at the show, she isn’t allowed to talk much.
Male armies
Only 1343 female officers work at Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) when compared the total number: 39,449. Female sergeants constitute 3% of the total number and it means four per thousand. There are no female generals on the contrary to the former Minister of National Defense, İsmet Yılmaz: “There isn’t a regulation preventing females from being generals/admirals.”
Female generals constitute 7% of the American army while the number is 16.6% when it comes to female officers.
Females go out of sight in the film industry
According to an international study 31% of speaking roles in popular movies are occupied by females, 23% of films feature a female protagonist.
Only four women were nominated for Oscar as the best director, one of them was awarded. (ÇT/BD)
* Çiçek Tahaoğlu compiled this news for bianet.
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