8.2.7 Tracking pay scale for gender equity

Monitoring the Wage Scale for Gender Equality at Boğaziçi University

Law No. 657 on Civil Servants regulates the conditions of service, qualifications, appointment, training, advancement, promotion, duties, rights, obligations, responsibilities, salaries, allowances and other personal matters of civil servants. In the public sector, salaries are determined according to titles and grades and include an equal pay policy without gender discrimination. Therefore, body measurements or similar monitoring methods are not used to ensure gender equality in the university's pay scale.

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Monitoring Gender Equality in the Wage Scale

The salary calculations of academic and administrative staff at Boğaziçi University are made in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Servants Law No. 657, Higher Education Personnel Law No. 2914 and Labour Law No. 4857, and full gender equality is ensured in wage scales. Salary payments are calculated, recorded and monitored by the Accounting Branch Directorate of the Personnel Department.

Boğaziçi University ensures that male and female employees are paid equal wages for work of equal value and develops policies that take into account gender balance in all academic and administrative positions. To this end, statistics of the personnel in all departments based on position and gender are compiled and published annually in the ‘Boğaziçi University in Numbers’ report. In the Boğaziçi University Gender Equality Plan for 2023, gender-sensitive recruitment and promotion targets and the activities planned to be implemented by the Personnel Department Commissions in the short, medium and long term have been determined.

Full-Time Faculty Members by Gender and Age, 2024

Age	Prof. Dr. (Professor)			Doç. Dr. (Assoc. Prof.)			Dr. Öğr. Üyesi (Asst. Prof.)			Total
Age	K / F	E / M	T	K / F	E / M	T	K / F	E / M	T	K / F	E / M	T
25-29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
30-34	-	-	-	1	-	1	4	15	19	5	15	20
35-39	-	-	-	4	4	8	22	25	47	26	29	55
40-44	4	6	10	9	10	19	19	18	37	32	34	66
45-49	11	21	32	13	25	38	15	15	30	39	61	100
50-54	18	24	42	11	11	22	4	2	6	33	37	70
55-59	17	30	47	9	6	15	1	-	1	27	36	63
60-64	21	20	41	4	1	5	1	2	3	26	23	49
65-67	9	10	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	10	19
Total	80	111	191	51	57	108	66	77	143	197	245	442

The Gender Distribution of Full-Time Faculty Members by Academic Units

2023
Academic Unit	Prof.Dr. K/F	Prof.Dr. E/M	Doç.Dr. K/F	Doç.Dr. E/M	Dr.Öğr.Üyesi K/F	Dr.Öğr.Üyesi E/M	Total K/F	Total E/M
Faculty of Education	12	4	14	6	15	10	41	20
Faculty of Arts and Sciences	24	28	14	19	22	27	60	74
Faculty of Law	-	-	-	1	3	8	3	9
Faculty of Communication	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Faculty of Economy and Administrative Science	8	12	6	13	7	12	21	37
Faculty of Engineering	14	46	8	14	6	15	28	75
Faculty of Managerial Sciences	10	3	3	3	5	3	18	9
Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History	1	3	1	-	2	1	4	4
Institute of Biomedical Engineering	1	6	2	-	1	1	4	7
Institute of Environmental Science	5	3	1	1	2	3	8	7
Kandilli Observation and Earthquake Research Institute	4	4	1	3	1	1	6	8
Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence	-	1	-	2	2	2	2	5
Total	79	110	50	62	66	84	195	256

2023
Academic Unit	Prof.Dr. K/F	Prof.Dr. E/M	Doç.Dr. K/F	Doç.Dr. E/M	Dr.Öğr.Üyesi K/F	Dr.Öğr.Üyesi E/M	Total K/F	Total E/M
Faculty of Education	11	4	15	7	16	9	42	20
Faculty of Arts and Sciences	23	27	17	17	25	26	65	70
Faculty of Law	-	1	-	-	2	10	2	11
Faculty of Communication	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Faculty of Economy and Administrative Science	7	11	5	13	7	9	19	33
Faculty of Engineering	15	49	7	11	3	13	25	73
Faculty of Managerial Sciences	10	2	4	4	3	1	17	7
Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History	1	3	1	-	2	1	4	4
Institute of Biomedical Engineering	2	6	1	-	3	1	6	7
Institute of Environmental Science	6	3	1	1	3	3	10	7
Kandilli Observation and Earthquake Research Institute	5	5	-	2	1	1	6	8
Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence	-	-	-	2	1	2	1	4
Total	80	111	51	57	66	77	197	245

Age and Gender Distribution of Administrative Staff

Age	2023			2024
Age	K/F	E/M	Total	K/F	E/M	Total
Under 25	17	52	69	12	36	48
25-29	57	136	193	50	125	175
30-34	71	143	214	79	177	256
35-39	75	144	219	75	139	214
40-44	103	149	252	95	136	231
45-49	87	107	194	88	121	209
50-54	72	89	161	74	72	146
55-59	41	68	109	40	76	116
60-64	35	36	71	32	41	73
65-67	-	1	1	-	-	-
Total	558	925	1483	545	923	1468

Gender Sensitive Recruitment and Promotion Targets and Planned Activities

Gender Responsive Labour Intake and Promotion Targets and Planned Activities
Targets	Activities	Term
1. Social Developing Gender Sensitive Recruitment and Promotion Processes	a. All academic ensuring gender balance in recruitment and promotion committees	Short Term
	b. Recruitment on unconscious bias for members of committees and administrative staff organise trainings	Middle Period
	c. Promotions guarantees equal opportunities and takes gender equality into account to create a policy that includes	Middle Period
	d. All academic and administrative job advertisements free of sexism or implicit bias standardise institutionally	Middle Period
	e. Young woman a mentoring programme for academics and researchers	Long Term
2. Women Policy to Eliminate Underrepresentation in Institutes and Faculties and Implement Procedures	a. Inadequate leadership of the represented groups on boards, committees and in the Senate to encourage them to participate in their positions	Short Term
	b. All gender-sensitive to ensure gender balance in positions to create promotion guidelines	Middle Period
	c. Every in order to ensure gender balance in the position observing and implementing promotion rules that take into account sensitivity	Long Term