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Aksigorta Became the Owner of the Equal Women Certificate in Business

to the certificates she has received with Equal opportunity for all employees
her work in this context. Aksigorta,
which consists of 51% of its employees Believing that gender balance will add
as women and is eligible for the Equal wealth to business life, Aksigorta Dep-
Women Certificate in an independent uty General Manager Ayşegül Gürkale
post-audit Work conducted with the said “As WEP’s principles signatory,
Sustainability Academy and the British we are very pleased to have also re-
audit company Inter-tek, is working on ceived the “Equal Women’s Certificate
initiatives that will add value to wom- in Business” with our work on gender
en’s lives both inside and outside the equality on the way we came out. As
company. Aksigorta, we are an institution that

provides equal opportunities to all its
Institutions that provide equal rights employees.
and opportunities to women in business
life are eligible for an Equal Women’s In order to raise awareness about gen-
Certificate in Business when they re- der equality awareness in the institution,
ceive suffi-cient points after an inde- we signed the Declaration on Equality at
pendent audit conducted in cooperation Work in 2013 and maintained gender
with the Sustain-ability Academy and balance within the institution with this
the British audit company Intertek. In declaration. At the same time, we also
order to obtain the certificate, Aksig- support experienced and competent fe-
Aksigorta, which consists of 51% of its orta received 90 points in the audit, male employees to move to higher posi-
employees as women and is eligible for where the passing grade is 70, ensuring tions and rise in Aksigor-ta and business
the Equal Women Certificate in an in- gender equality and non-discrimina- life. If we have to put it in figures, 50.3%
dependent post-audit Work conducted tion, establishing an effective manage- of the employees of our institution are
with the Sustainability Academy and ment system against discrimination, women. 32% of our executive staff are
the British audit company Intertek, providing safe working conditions, es- women. At the same time, we have 73%
is working on initiatives that will add tablishing mechanisms to prevent vi- female employee engagement. When we
value to women’s lives both inside and olence and harassment, informing the look at the seniority year ratios, we see
outside the company. sup-ply chain in line with policies, gen- that our female employees have a sen-
der equality and creating a social im- iority year of 6.01%. In ad-dition, we
Aksigorta, who advocates for gender pact for women’s empowerment, ensur- have important initiatives that will add
equality in business as well as in all ing the participation of all stakeholders value to women’s lives inside and outside
aspects of life, has added another one in the solu-tion. the company.”

Advanced Transformation Ideas from Anado-lu Hayat Emeklilik

Aiming to reduce the amount of waste in a world of increas- ment in order to re-duce the
ing consumption, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik has launched the amount of waste in the world
“Forward Transformation Movement” for a sustainable fu- of increasing consumption,
ture. Collabo-rating with the "Çöpçüler TV" Youtube channel explains how to make a wall
as part of the Upcycling Movement, which aims to recycle clock from a bicycle wheel, in
unused items and reuse them with a new function with a little the video released in January
creativity, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik has started to publish with the slogan "Transform
videos containing upcycling ideas on its social media ac- Forward, Change the Future".
counts. Ideas that can be easily im-
ple-mented by everyone are
Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik publishes instructional videos on conveyed in the videos, which
its social media ac-counts in cooperation with the Youtube are based on giving a second
channel Garbage, which transforms un-used items into useful chance with creative ideas in-
items as part of the Upcycling Movement it initiated. stead of throwing away objects
that have lost their function
Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, which started the Upcycling Move- and becoming useless and buying new ones.