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The technology sector is one of the male-dominated business areas in Turkey. While efforts to ensure gender equality continue in the sector, the domestic technology company, 64% of its employees are women, has successfully implemented the Women@CALIGO project, which it has launched, to establish equality between men and women.

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İSTANBUL (TR) - As in the whole world, gender inequality in Turkey is one of the main problems of both social and business life. Information technology (it) is one of the areas where this problem is most intense when looking at sectors. According to the data of wtech, the women's Association in technology, the female workforce in IT field in our country is 9.9%. In the face of this picture, as technology companies roll up their sleeves in search of solutions, an important move came from Caligo, which operates in the fields of data management and analytics.

The domestic technology company has announced the launch of a program called Women@CALIGO with the aim of bringing gender equality commitments to life with concrete goals and practices. According to PwC's Women in Work 2020 report, while the proportion of female employees in the IT sector in the G7 countries is 30%; Caligo, currently 3 out of every 5 employees are women, reported that it does not discriminate on the basis of wages with an equal pay policy for equal value work, tracks gender-separated data at every break and takes data-based actions to establish equality. Family life and work to harmonize the maintenance obligation a responsibility to female employees only, not the joint responsibility of all parents CALIGO seen as employees work-life balance in order to achieve, parents leave their children in the days of rationing and the first day of school extra gives you the right to maternity leave to female employees and to implement practices that will not be interrupted by kariyerlerin after it is committed.

"Women devote 3 times more time to household chores than men in addition to work life”

Caligo Managing Partner Umut Işcan said: “research shows that a very large part (76.2%) of the unrequited Labor spent on household chores, called” unpaid work " in English, is undertaken by women. In other words, women spend three times as much time on household chores as men, in addition to the responsibilities they carry in business." said.

Pay rise or promotion continues on pregnancy and maternity leave

By balancing the responsibilities of women in their work and private lives, they support more women to make careers for longer, Umut Işcan said. “the private health insurance package we have created for our employees also includes comprehensive birth insurance. No female employee who is pregnant and goes on maternity leave gets a pay cut, but rather the pay increases and promotions that they should receive in normal time continue. So all the barriers to their potential are removed, their career paths are not closed. We believe that in this way we can move female employees and managers in BT, a male-dominated sector, to the levels they should be,” he said. 

"We hope it will be an example to the industry”

Muharrem Işeri, Managing Partner of Caligo, said that they hope that their practice, which paves the way for gender equality in the field of it, will also be an example for the sector: “the proportion of women among the candidates we invited for a job interview in 2020, was 52%, and the proportion of women among the hired was 63%. Among our employees who are promoted in 2020, the proportion of women is 68%. These indicators are very valuable information that we constantly monitor and look at to confirm whether we are properly managing the balance of men and women in internal processes. Behind all these figures are determined efforts, which we hope will set an example for the sector. I have to be clear that this stereotype is not the result of an obsession with positive discrimination or a different sensitivity. When we tried to define the profile of the’ Ideal CALIGO employee', we found that it was most successfully filled by women, and that's the whole result.”

Caligo Technology Co.P. About:  

CALIGO is a technology company specializing in Data Management, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Big Data Solutions. Founded in 2015, CALIGO offers a whole range of services from A to Z that will allow its customers in the banking, telecommunications and insurance sectors it serves to fully use the power of data in their hands. CALIGO is eligible for the “Best Employers” certification in 2021 in the Great Place To Work survey, where human resources policies and practices are evaluated and measured by an employee satisfaction survey.