Gender equality and women's empowerment are important. Achieving it in the Uniforms and Corporate Wear Industry is challenging but not impossible.
Woman is life itself! From Fatma in the fields to Leyla in the opera; Woman is a colorful light; from Sabiha in the sky, to nurse Rana and, to Türkan on the podium.
Giving life its brilliance with her red, yellow and purple colours; like a poem, sensitive but powerful… because Woman is love!
Woman is free! She is free from the choice of her clothing to her education, from her ideas to her work. That’s because free Woman is the distinctive future ...
Woman is strong! She is productive, hardworking. Because strong Woman is the strong future.
Woman is equal! In her house; in the eyes of her father, brother, wife, lover, child, Woman is equal! She is equal in the eyes of her teacher at her school and her boss at work. Because equal Woman is the guarantor of an equal future.
Therefore, Woman should be celebrated everyday. She must be celebrated every day again and again!
We as DressBest Uniforms celebrate the International Women’s Day.
As the DressBest Family, we are first and foremost grateful to the creator of the free Turkish Woman, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, our Founding Father who gave her the right to vote and hold public office in 1934, long before many countries in the world...
Why is gender equality important?
The results of an IMF report show that countries that cannot use women's power and experience, face economic losses exceeding 30% of their GNP. (Please see Gender and IMF for more information)
On the other hand, in a study conducted by Forbes Magazine in the United States, "smart companies" stand out with their success to make a difference with a remarkable growth quotient and speed simply by involving women equally at all levels.(Please see Gender Equality is Smart Business for more information)
How to devise a Corporate Gender Equality Strategy?
Since the day we were established, in line with our corporate culture, we have been working with all our strength to ensure 100% gender equality and to encourage women's participation in employment.
With a rate of 54% female employees across departments, we not only say but also live upto our corporate gender strategy of equality first in line with the United Nations Sustainable Delevoplement Goals! - SGD 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Under the leadership of our founder Ms. Tulin Yazici, who is also at the Board of Directors of Kagider, Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey we also support our ecosystem along the lines of the #buyfromwomen initiative and WEConnect INTERNATIONAL, having achieved a 34% rate in our female supplier ratio. We are growing together and stronger ...
We know that women stay away from business life for a long time due to unpaid family care activities throughout the world. We, therefore, continue to support our employees’ needs for their children and elderly in kindergartens, study centers and nursing homes by developing available mechanisms in social care.
Our Soma Women’s Cooperative Project initiated together with Kagider and Vodafone, aimed to remedy the devastating effects of the 2014 mining accident has been continuing to enable the widows and wives of the miners to produce not only for themselves and their families but also for nearby settlements in an exemplary attempt. (Please see VODAFONE TURKEY SUSTAINABILITY REPORT and SOMA WOMEN COOPERATIVE )
We would like to proudly state that the United Nations 2017 award as well as the many entrepreneurship awards we have received as DressBest have been giving us a high motivation and a true joy to persistently carry out our full equality and sustainability policies; our primary goals since the day we were founded. (Please see OUR VALUES for more information)
Dear fellow Women; Continue to imagine, work hard and believe in your cause!
We, as DressBest Uniforms, promise to continue to work with the same enthusiasm in order to create a more equal and conscious uniform and corporate wear industry and a better world.