Marmara University opened the Women's Studies Application and Research Center in Economic and Social Fields (ESKAR). Under the roof of ESKAR, our aim is to provide cooperation between academics in different scientific fields at our University and/or other institutions and organizations outside the University and civil society organizations to enable the production of scientific knowledge that will enable the development of policies and practices aimed at ensuring gender equality in our country and increasing the economic status of women, to convey the produced knowledge to various segments of society, especially politicians, to work towards increasing women's employment in the economy, ensuring that women take on managerial positions in working life and are included in decision-making mechanisms, to ensure that more resources are allocated from public resources to activities aimed at overcoming women's problems, to inform women about their rights and opportunities in every field and the ways to access them, and to carry out various activities aimed at raising awareness about demanding equal rights with men. Click for information. Many activities are carried out in this center.

The first of the Women's Cooperatives Training Project was held in Istanbul in cooperation with ESKAR and TÜBİTAK, and the second was held in Eskişehir. Participation in the training held at Eskişehir Haller Youth Center Training Hall was quite intense. At the end of the training, which was held with the support of TÜGİAD Eskişehir branch, on reaching Women's Cooperatives, the high level of satisfaction of the participants was observed. Entrepreneurship, Effective Communication and Digital Marketing Trainings were given to cooperative managers and members between the ages of 25-60 by Marmara University's expert instructors. As the outcome of the training, people who are more conscious of production, aware of the business plan with profit and loss content, more visionary, understand the importance of more effective communication and establish customer relations by taking this into account, who know digital marketing and modern management and production, participate in the training and at the end of the training It was observed that women who acted with this awareness handled what and how they did things from a more productive perspective. It was observed that there was a serious difference in the activity outcomes between women's cooperatives that participated in the training and those that did not. It was determined that all women, who were unaware of these issues before the training, would handle the production and sales processes from these perspectives on issues such as efficiency, effectiveness and visionaryness at the end of the training.

Kayseri Women's Cooperatives Training

Women's Studies Application and Research Center in the Social Field visited women's cooperatives and evaluated traditional arts produced by hand.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was organized by Women's Studies Application and Research Center in Economic and Social Fields.

Sustainable Women's Employment Award

Women's Studies Application and Research Center in Economic and Social Fields was deemed worthy of the "Sustainable Women's Employment" award. It was held at Swisotel with a large organization of approximately 600 people, with the participation of countries such as Germany, America and France. Among the award-winning companies and institutions, Marmara University's Women's Studies Research and Application Center in Economic and Social Fields (ESKAR), Director of Marmara University, one of the first women's research centers established in our country, Prof. Dr. Fatma Ayanoğlu touched upon the importance of these studies on sustainability in terms of awareness and dedicated her award to Palestinian women with the hope that there will be no women left subjected to violence in the world.

Business Positive Project

Our producing women promoted their products at the launch of the İş Pozitif Project.

Workshop on Women, Youth and Disabled Employment in the Sectors of the Future

The "Workshop on Employment of Women, Youth and Disabled People in the Sectors of the Future", organized by the Women's Studies Application and Research Center in Economic and Social Fields within the scope of Tübitak, was held at Marmara University Faculty of Business Administration with the intense participation of relevant public institutions, NGOs and partner universities.

TÜBİTAK PROJECT: Employment of Women, Youth and Disabled People in the Sectors of the Future

The 4th Workshop on Participation and Employment of Disabled Women in Social Life, organized by the Disabled Student Unit and ESKAR, was held. In addition to the guests invited to the 3rd Workshop on behalf of the public, UNWOMEN, ILO and ENKAD, which were recommended in the 3rd Workshop, were invited to obtain information about the conjuncture and to get ideas on how we can include NGOs in possible studies. With the 3rd workshop report made in the 3rd workshop and shared with the relevant ministries, and the 4th workshop concluded as a confirmation of the outputs obtained in the previous two workshop reports, we have understood that we are taking very correct steps and that we, as Marmara University, are a few steps ahead in this regard and that we are visionaries who can see beyond. . It has been understood that the cooperation between the academy and the state will bring much more efficiency in increasing the scale of the workshops we will hold from now on with our ministries and in the projects and innovative breakthroughs to be made.

International Journal

Marmara University also carries out academic studies as a result of the importance it attaches to gender equality and women's rights. In this context, Marmara University has published a journal under the name of Journal of Women and Gender Studies to expand academic studies. It is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal published twice a year. The magazine includes articles written in every field on women and gender issues. It aims to encourage academic studies in the field of women and gender, and to contribute to the development of an academic discussion environment that will reveal women's problems and their causes and enable the development of solutions in order to raise the economic and social status of women in society. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mukatcad