Yıldız Holding, which founded the Women’s Platform last year to bring its gender equality practices under one roof, has published its 2021 Report. According to the report, Yıldız Holding companies, which have implemented exemplary practices towards equal opportunities, have achieved an increase of almost 50 percent in female employment, recruitment, and promotion rates.  

Having founded its ‘Women’s Platform’ last year and initiated a major transformation on the basis of equal opportunities in all its companies, Yıldız Holding shared the ‘Women’s Platform Report 2021’ with the public. Yıldız Holding Women’s Platform Report 2021 covers the good practices implemented by Yıldız Holding and its affiliates for equal opportunities, as well as the efforts of the Women’s Platform in detail. In the report, increases in key parameters such as female employment, recruitment, and promotion rates in 2021 draw particular attention.  

Female employment increases steadily

The female employment rate at Yıldız Holding increased from 37 percent in both 2019 and 2020 to 39 percent in 2021. Among the Yıldız Holding companies with the highest female employee rates, GODIVA stands out with 67 percent, followed by ŞOK Marketler with 49 percent and Kerevitaş with 44 percent. At Yıldız Ventures, which was also included in the report in 2021, the female employment rate has reached 42 percent. The company that achieved the highest year-on-year increase in female employment was ŞOK Marketler with an increase from 45 percent to 49 percent in 2021. 

Female employees stand out in new recruitments 

While female employees constituted 42 percent of the newly-recruited employees in all levels at Yıldız Holding companies in 2020, the rate of newly-recruited female employees at Yıldız Holding companies reached 49 percent in 2021, with this year’s rates at GODIVA and ŞOK Marketler being 77 percent and 53 percent, respectively. Moreover, while women constituted 34 percent of those who were promoted across the Holding companies in 2020, this rate increased to 45 percent in 2021.   

Mutuş: We aspire to be a role model for the business world in equal opportunities

Yıldız Holding Women’s Platform Ambassador Begüm Mutuş said: “We wanted to address the topic of equal opportunities with a more corporate approach at Yıldız Holding, which has been emphasizing equal opportunities since the day it was founded. Thus, we established Yıldız Holding Women’s Platform last year. Through this platform, we aim to implement projects that will contribute to the building of an egalitarian, pluralistic, and inclusive social order. We aspire to be a significant role model for our stakeholders, our society, and the business world by sharing our performance and goals in the area of equal opportunities. As is known, we, as Yıldız Holding, created Yıldız Holding Women’s Platform Equal Opportunities and Women’s Empowerment Manifesto to share our approach to equal opportunities. As part of this Manifesto, we made commitments in several areas, namely ‘Discourse’, ‘Business Environment’ and ‘Cooperation’ and created our strategy roadmap which includes the actions to be taken in these three areas. In our report, we share the guidelines of this strategy and our goals with the public.”