Women Employment In Fınancıal Sector Rose To 48.4 Pct.

Number of women working in the Turkish financial sector rises, while number of men falling, pushing the rate of female employment towards 50 percent, according the Financial Intermediary Institution Statistics data, released by Turkish Statistical Institute (TSI), on Wednesday.

In Turkey, 246 enterprises operated at financial service activities, 62 enterprises operated at insurance, reinsurance and pension funding and 17,608 enterprises operated at activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities.

Total employment at financial intermediary institutions rose over 314 thousand in 2013, 70.8 percent of which were employees of financial intermediary institutions and 83.7 percent of total value added of financial intermediary institutions was of banking sector.

Number of female employees at financial intermediary institutions was rose by 5.4 percent to 146 thousand, while number of male employees was fell by 0.5 percent to 155 thousand.

Female employment rate rose to 48.4 percent in 2013, from 47.0 percent it was in 2012, while male employment rate fell to 51.6 percent in 2013, from it was 53.0 percent the year before.

EMPLOYMENT IN SUB-SECTORS

According to the TSI data, 72.2 percent of total number of persons employed was of financial service activities, 5.9 percent of total number of persons employed was of insurance, reinsurance and pension funding and 21.9 percent of total number of persons employed was of activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities.

TOTAL VALUED ADDED FACTO COST

Total value added at factor cost was 83.65 billion lira, 91.2 percent of which was of financial service activities, 5.1 percent  insurance, reinsurance and pension funding and 3.7 percent of activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities. - Istanbul