March 11, 2006 İlknur Başar, a member of the Central Executive Committee member of the Health and Social Services Workers’ Union, SES, announced that the “Family Physicians” working in the pilot zone Düzce were forced to pay visits to patients homes and if they had not examined more than 1000 patients in two consecutive months […]
March 11, 2006
İlknur Başar, a member of the Central Executive Committee member of the Health and Social Services Workers’ Union, SES, announced that the “Family Physicians” working in the pilot zone Düzce were forced to pay visits to patients homes and if they had not examined more than 1000 patients in two consecutive months their contracts would be cancelled.
Speaking in a panel titled “The Affects of the Neoliberal Policies on Women and Violence,” İlknur Başar said the number of women working irregularly has reached 3.5 million, but if the new Social Security Laws take effect, the women would lose more of the whatever security they have now and would be more impoverished.
She said 64 percent of women do not go to health care providers and more than 2500 women die because they do not seek health care prior to or after pregnancies.
President of the union, Köksal Aydın said the women only owned about 1% of the total wealth of the world and said while the class exploitation increased, the women’s issues became deeper. Aydın also said that the flexible work and neoliberal policies hurt women the most and emphasized, “Male dominated societies are a result of neoliberalism.”
Speaking at the same panel, Sevgi Göyce, the Secretary of Women at KESK, the Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions, said the capital preferred women in the globalization process because they were cheaper, and their possibility of organizing and resistance was lower. She also said the 80% of the workers at free trade zones, where the exploitation was maximum according to ILO, were women.
When asked why the bank managers preferred women for employment, she answered, “Because the women are docile, they do not raise their voices, they accept to work harder. ” But she reminded that capital’s this view of women had started to change after the Women’s World March and that women had met on December 6th 2004 in Rawanda and demanded, “equality, justice, peace and solidarity.” She also explained that the women in Turkey were divided and hoped that their collective experiences against violence, inequality and poverty would be carried over to future collective actions.
Source: Arzu ÇELİKBAŞ – Ankara
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