A Woman Can Change the Entire World

The Great Leader Atatürk, who aimed to create equal and free citizens in the enlightened ideal of the Republic, laid the solid foundations of this ideal by fighting the mentality that ignored women, through the Civil Code, equality in education, and granting women the right to vote and stand for election.

Atatürk understood and implemented the importance and value of women’s struggle for existence and equality in society before many European countries.

Today, we see that we have been dragged far from the Republic’s ideal of equal and free citizens.

Women are being ignored, subjected to violence, and excluded from social and working life.

Today, 1 out of every 14 women in our country cannot read or write.

7 out of every 10 women are not working.

Women’s labor at home and at work is being made invisible. When and how many children women should have is being turned into a national issue. They face violence, they are killed, but their murderers receive sentence reductions for “good behavior.”

The system that exploits, strips of security, subcontracts, and enslaves all workers, both women and men, further crushes women’s labor through sexist mindsets and discrimination.

Women cannot enter working life, and even if they do, they are forced to work for lower wages.

As the crisis deepens, problems hit women first. Employers who turn the crisis into an opportunity sacrifice women first. When women aspire to solve problems, they fall victim to the mentality in the corridors of politics. Women cannot take their place in Parliament.