Chairwoman For TÜSİAD Albeit Lack of Women in Company Administrators

Cansen Başaran-Symes was elected as the third woman, after Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ and Ümit Boyner, to become the chairperson of TÜSİAD - Turkey’s leading union of Industrialists' and Businessmen. 

However only 2 out of 12 board members are women. 

TÜSİAD’s 2015-2016 Board Members are as follows:

Cansen Başaran–Symes (Chair), Sedat Şükrü Ünlütürk (Vice Chair), Ali Y. Koç (Vice Chair), Murat Özyeğin (Treasurer), İsmail Hasan Akçakayalıoğlu (Member), Metin Akman (Member), Bahadır Balkır (Member), Memduh Boydak (Member), Esin Güral Argat (Member), Simone Kaslowski (Member), Mehmet Nurettin Pekarun (Member), Agah Mehmet Tara (Member), Zafer A. Yavan (Member – General Secretary).

No women in 44% of company administrations 

According to Independent Women Directors Turkey 2014 report, only 44.1 percent of Turkey’s 422 companies affiliated with BIST (Stocks Istanbul) have women administrators. Among board members, the percentage of women turned out 11.9 percent. (ÇT/BM)

* Photo credit: Metin Pala, Anatolia Agency

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