Women's hands touch from production to management at Türk Prysmian Kablo

Türk Prysmian Kablo, the Turkey operation of Prysmian Group, the worldwide leader in the cable sector, also makes a difference with the importance it attaches to women's employment in a traditional sector such as the cable sector in line with its sustainability vision. Türk Prysmian Kablo, where 40 percent of white-collar employees are women, stands out among the 50 countries where Prysmian Group operates with this ratio.

Prysmian Group, the worldwide leader in the energy and telecommunications cables sector, attaches great importance to women's employment in line with its sustainability goals. Operating in 50 countries, the group consisted of 30 percent of its total workforce as of the end of 2018. Prysmian Group, which has made strong progress towards its goal of having 12 percent female managers in 2020, increased this rate to 10.8 percent in 2018 from 6.4 percent in 2017.

"A pioneer in the cable sector with the ratio of female employees"

Turk Prysmian Kablo CEO Cinzia Farisè

Türk Prysmian Kablo, the Group's Turkey operation in Mudanya since 1964, stands out with its work on sustainability within the group and with its female managers and employees within the traditional structure of the Turkish cable industry. With more than 500 employees, 40 percent of Türk Prysmian Kablo's white-collar employees are women. The female managers of Türk Prysmian Kablo, whose management has been entrusted to Italian CEO Cinzia Farisè since September 2019, are also changing the male-dominated understanding of the sector with the training they have received both in Turkey and Italy. Gamze Keçeci, Purchasing Chief responsible for the supply of the company's strategic metals, draws attention as one of the few people from Turkey who participated in Prysmian Group's international leadership training in Italy.

"Trained as a future leader in Prysmian Group"

Turkish Prysmian Cable
Purchasing Chief Gamze Keçeci

Gamze Keçeci, who has been working at Türk Prysmian Kablo since 2010, works as the Purchasing Chief at the company's factory in Mudanya. Keçeci, who graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering with the first prize and the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering with the third place, attended the International Leadership training given to future leaders within the Prysmian Group. Keçeci, who will complete the training given by Bocconi University in Italy this year, continues her career at Türk Prysmian Kablo's Mudanya factory as one of the prominent female employees in the sector.

"As role models increase, so does the number of female employees"

According to Eurostat, out of approximately 18 million scientists and engineers in Europe in 2017, 59% were men and 41% were women. Gamze Keçeci, who said that women's employment in the cable sector is increasing day by day, said, "Being a female employee in a male-dominated working environment in my first working years was of course a challenge, but since Prysmian Group's global company policy did not discriminate against gender in the sector, I had many role models. As women leaders and managers increase within the group, there is a very productive working environment for me and my female colleagues who will come after me," Prysmian Group attaches importance to women's employment.