The rate of women entrepreneurs in Turkey is 15 percent and this must be increased

GYİAD Chairman Yiğit Savcı calls out to women on March 8, International Women’s Day: “The rate of women entrepreneurs in Turkey is 15 percent and this must be increased” Always supporting the women and believing that the women must have more space in the business life, the Young Executives and Business People Association (GYİAD) calls out to women on March 8, International Women’s Day and says, “We can pass to the developed countries category only by increasing the rate of women in the business life, strengthening them and make added value production.”

Supporting the women, thinking that they must have more space in the business life and therefore performing relevant studies, GYİAD wants to encourage the women to become entrepreneurs. Saying that when the statistics are considered, we see that the rate of the women entrepreneurs in the global start-up ecosystem is around 17 percent, GYİAD Chairman Yiğit Savcı says that this rate increased to 14 percent from 9 percent with a great change between 2009 and 2011, then not shown any change for 6 years: “According to the recent data, the rate of the women entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey is around 15 percent and as a result, we are 2 points under the world’s average. When we consider in terms of investment amount, the total investment amount is 42,6 million dollars, the enterprises with women entrepreneurs received 6,6 million dollars of investment in 2017. Briefly, women entrepreneurs collected 15 percent of the investment amount and we do not find this number sufficient.”

A book like a guide for the ones who want to become entrepreneur

Willing to have more women in the business life and more importantly, to encourage them to be entrepreneurs, GYİAD published its second book of the entrepreneurship cases series. In the book “Kendi Hikayesini Yazanlar”, the entrepreneurship stories of five women entrepreneurs (Gülsha Kozmetik Founder & General Manager Gülşah Gürkan, Happy Human Resources & Omuz Omuza Engelsiz Human Resources Founder & General Manager Özgül Topkan Koruyan, MPM Food Founder and Managing Partner Pelin Özer, EDT Health Founder & General Manager Dilşad Çelebi and Artisan Group Founder & General Manager Özge Yılmaz) are handled and by moving from the realities, it is like a guide lighting the path of the youth having a dream of entrepreneurship. GYİAD Chairman Yiğit Savcı emphasizes that this book is a work of art prepared to say to the women entrepreneurs that ‘it is more than you can do, we are late, we have to rapidly increase the number of our entrepreneurs without making men-women discrimination and we have to grow our economy. We can only pass to the developed countries category if we increase the rates of women in the business life, strengthen them and make added value production.’