Resources on Gender equality

  1. Access to formal work

    How knowledge became power for Syrian women in Türkiye

    24 August 2023

    Gülsüm and Emel are two young Syrian women whose lives changed after visiting one of the ILO’s Information Centres (BILMER) in Istanbul, where they gained knowledge on social protection and safety.

  2. News

    Three women, three countries, one dream: A happy future…

    27 April 2023

  3. © ILO 2024

    Working from home

    ILO Turkey’s report reveals home-based work is primarily shaped by gender roles

    02 March 2021

    A report by the ILO Office for Turkey on home-based work – the oldest form of work that has become even more widespread in the times of COVID-19 pandemic – reveals the gender-based dimensions of home-based work. “Home bounded – Global outreach: Home-based workers in Turkey”, establishes that home-based work, regardless of workers’ socio-economic status, is a form of work without social security or social protection.

  4. ILO Working paper 21

    Home bounded - Global outreach: Home-based workers in Turkey

    18 December 2020

    This report focuses on industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”.

  5. Article

    ILO COOP/SSE Chiefs across time

    03 November 2020

    This page provides bibliographies of the chiefs and heads of the ILO's Cooperatives Unit since its establishment in 1920.

  6. News

    SADA Women’s Cooperative in Turkey was selected as one of the 10 projects for scaling up by the Paris Peace Forum

    28 November 2019

    The cooperative was formed by women from host and refugee communities to undertake collective income generation activities with the support of the ILO. The cooperative was selected as one of ten projects to be scaled up and mentored by the Paris Peace Forum in the coming year.

  7. News

    SADA Women’s Cooperative in Turkey selected for the Paris Peace Forum

    28 June 2019

  8. News

    Introductory Seminar on Cooperatives Held for SADA Women Centre Trainees

    14 January 2019

    An introductory seminar on cooperatives was held for the Project beneficiaries for a “women’s cooperative” to be established under the “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM.

  9. Project

    Gaziantep Women-only Center: Providing Livelihood Support

    16 October 2018

  10. Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

    Advancing women’s cooperatives in Turkey

    08 March 2018

    "Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Ms Şengül Akçar, Executive Director of the Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work (FSWW).