As part of Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, TEI organized the "Strong Women of Aviation" program to celebrate hundreds of TEI's female employees working at the Source of Power and came together with students to introduce the aviation and defense industry to middle and high school female students.
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week is celebrated every year to commemorate the date of the world's first female pilot's license. As every year, TEI spent this week with a busy schedule of events. TEI carries out many social responsibility projects to increase the employment of women in Türkiye's aviation industry and sheds light on the female engineers and technicians of the future.
TEI came together with 500 female students, and events within the scope of social responsibility activities were carried out in coordination with Eskişehir Provincial Directorate of National Education. In the first event, TEI visited 400 female students at Melahat Ünügür Secondary School. During the presentations, career opportunities in the aviation industry and TEI's achievements were explained, and gift packages specially prepared for female students were presented to the students. In addition to the middle school visit, TEI also hosted high school students at its facilities and organized a facility tour and presentation for 100 female students from 4 different high schools in Eskişehir.
TEI women employees came together at the "Strong Women of Aviation" event. Prof. Mahmut F. Akşit, the CEO of TEI, gave a speech at the special event. Speaking at the event, Akşit congratulated employees on the Women of Aviation Worldwide Week and Women's Day. In order to support the women affected by the earthquake, the bags, which are prepared through the products purchased from the earthquake area, have been provided as gifts to the female employees.
The iftar meal program, the last event of Women of Aviation Worldwide Week was held with the presence of Prof. Ayşen Gürcan, 63rd Government Minister of Family and Social Policies, and the participation of TEI women employees. Prof. Mahmut F. Akşit, the CEO of TEI, and TEI executives also attended the iftar meal program. Speaking at the event, Gürcan congratulated the participants on Women's Day and thanked TEI management for the iftar meal program. She also answered the questions of TEI employees and answered questions about her career.
TEI has been selected as the "Most Female Friendly Corporation Worldwide" by the Institute for Women of Aviation Worldwide for the 8th times with the activities that it has carried out in the previous years and the practices that it has implemented for its female employees.
TEI will continue its efforts to increase female employment in the aviation industry.
