Turkey and female entrepreneurship
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The document discusses initiatives to support female entrepreneurship in Izmir, Turkey. It outlines objectives to provide financial and informational incentives to female business owners and promote gender equality. The Izmir Municipality program offers a one-month training course and grants up to 27,000 TL and loans up to 70,000 TL to successful entrepreneurial projects. It also identifies challenges faced by female entrepreneurs like lack of capital, traditional gender beliefs, and glass ceiling effects. The document profiles two successful Turkish businesswomen: one the chairman of the Turkish Industry and Business Association, and the other the founder and CEO of Trendyol, Turkey's largest online fashion retailer.
Turkey and female entrepreneurship
- 2. Objectives: supporting female entrepreneurship and their leadership Offers financial and informational incentives to members. Common objectives are creating active females and gender equality supported more than 1300 female entrepreneurs
- 3. Izmir Municipality Organizations experts give a course to thirty participaters for one mounth Providing financial incentives to successful projects such as 27.000 TL grant and 70.000 TL credit
- 4. Lack of Capital Traditional Beliefs Discrimination based on gender roles Glass ceiling barrier Stereotyping Role conflict
- 6. Woman dominated markets are take place within service sector Restaurant Genetic sciences Textile Fashion & Design Energy Digital media
- 7. completed her university degree on economics and in University of Rochester started her career as Vice President of Finance in Boyner Company was responsible for External Presentation Commission at Turkish Industry and Business Association in 2005 In 21 January 2010, Boyner was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish Industry and Business Association Boyner is a member of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey
- 8. CEO and Founder of Trendyol.com Graduated from New York University and Harvard Business School Inspiration point: Cosmetic projects of her close friend. Found a gap and she decided to sell fashion over internet by using the motto of fashion for everybody Created an online shopping platform/ fashion websites trendyol.com as a first mover in this market. Products are provided with the 85% of discount. As a result, 4 million members 350 employees Cooperations with 1000 brands 5000 fotograph every day Monthly 12000 visitors In 16 months, the value of project reached $150 million