Business against intimate partner violence; a case of participative action research and social action

This book is about the Business Against Domestic Violence (BADV) project, which has been initiated and coordinated by the Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT) - a research center at Sabancı University’s School of Management, as a participatory action research project. The Project is aimed at exploring business agency in achieving gender equality through playing a catalytic role in mobilizing companies and business associations against IPV in Turkey in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD). Turkey represents an ideal setting for observing the role of business in achieving gender equality, as it has the highest gender gap amongst G-20 states following Saudi Arabia (WEF, 2018), the lowest labor force participation by women amongst all OECD countries (OECD, 2018), and a persistently high record of gender-based violence

Mapping the Level of Knowledge in Gender Studies: a Mirror of Women's Radicalism in Turkey

This paper aims to map the research conducted on women and gender studies at universities in Turkey. The studies, projects, articles, books, seminars, conferences, training programs produced in this field take place in a wide variety of fields. The main material of this study is postgraduate theses written on women and gender issues. Thus, postgraduate theses written in the discipline of women and gender studies are evaluated within the framework of historical and political contexts. The institutionalization of academic feminism in Turkey is a radical intervention in the academic knowledge production process. Despite all the difficulties and obstacles, this process is a success story for Turkey. What does the knowledge of this mapping tell us? Where are these studies going? Is the radical intervention of feminism in Turkey still considered radical today? In order to think about the answers to these questions, it was tried to map the theses written on women and gender studies by taking data. In this study, the importance of the information obtained and the historical and political importance of emphasizing this information are analyzed by mapping the 'theses', which is an important part of the knowledge produced in women and gender studies in Turkey