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TED University Center for Gender Studies partial scholarship students’ wishes for International Women’s Day
“This March 8 and every day, we shout that we believe that every girl has the right to start life with an equal opportunity and to explore life with confidence. Children, especially girls, drop out of school or cannot attend school regularly due to poverty and/or working outside, social rules, living in rural or inaccessible areas, being from ethnic or language-based minorities. We must struggle for every girl and boy to have free access to education on the basis of equal opportunity! We believe that a world where they have access to education services, where children are protected from violence and abuse, where their participation rights are respected and where they live without discrimination, in healthy and safe environments will become a reality. We have to work for it, we will work for it. Happy 8 March International Women's Day!”
Neslihan Alakabak, Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling
“I congratulate the progress made since March 8, 1857, the beginning of the struggle for gender equality, and wish to be a more egalitarian society in the upcoming March 8. Happy 8 March International Women's Day.”
Berkay Kaya, Department of Psychology
“It is known that women are the group that is mainly affected by the difficult experiences of the forced migration journey. Some women embark on this journey to escape the difficulties assigned to them due to their gender roles and the violence they have suffered, while others hope to offer an entirely new future to their families due to these roles. One of the most significant burdens that refugee women bring in their suitcases on this journey to build new lives is being a refugee woman rather than being a woman. It is our duty not only today but every day to be their voice and make an effort to be their homeland. Wishing all women to live shoulder to shoulder in a world free from discrimination.”
Zekiye Gürün, Department of Political Science and International Relations & Cenay Gürhan, Department of Political Science and International Relations
“Until sexual harassment, unequal pay, negative strategies based on gender, prejudice, and sexist discourses are ended and needs are taken into account equally, women+ have equal opportunities in the recruitment and promotion strategy, equal pay is provided, and equal working environments are created, we will continue our rights-based endeavor and struggle. I wish for women to live equally and freely in all working environments.”
Büşra Başar, Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling
“Do you know that women in the workforce also spend more effort than their partners on laundry, washing dishes, cooking, cleaning, and child care at home? However, women's care work at home is unfortunately rendered invisible. I wish for many International Women’s Days, where women’s work in the labor market is appreciated, and their efforts at home become visible and remunerated.”
Büşra Seray Düzyol, Migration Studies MA Program
“The fact that companies share the ratio of female employees In business life and see this as a finesse that should be appreciated increases the anger, not the respect, of women who try to their existing rights by the approval of others. We do not want society to “accept” us despite our “inadequacies” and not to be slurred over as the subjects of the brand’s gift campaigns one day a year. Instead, we dream of days when all parts of society can coexist equally with differences and similarities. I wish us better and more equal International Women’s Days.“
Nisan Deniz Eren, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design