An old newspaper interview shared by Dr. Duygu Aysal Cin from Istanbul Technical University Rare Books Unit takes us on a journey about the role of women in our society in the first years of our Republic before March 8, International Women’s Day.

İTÜ News, revealed the interview made by Peyami Safa with Melek Erbul, who was newly graduated from the School of Senior Engineering. Interview was published in the Cumhuriyet newspaper dated March 31, 1933. Please read the remarkable messages of Ms. Melek, one of our first women engineers, about the role of women in social life: https://haberler.itu.edu.tr/en/newsdetail/2021/03/08/life-gradually-reveals-hidden-talents-of-women