Sindi is a medical scientist who was the first Saudi Muslim woman in the Middle East to get a PhD in biotechnology, was one of the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia, and is the co-founder of Diagnostics For All; an NGO that works to provide medical care in remote impoverished areas.
The joy of parents and guardians is to see the child they have nurtured being successful in ways they could not have imagined but how much these parents put into the modelling of future generations is still in question.
In the midst of struggles to close gender gaps by 2030 and the clamour for one voice by women across regions, women have been encouraged to fight their fears and speak up when faced with challenges and inhuman situations such as domestic violence, rape, and marginalization.
The role of women in different spheres of influence cannot be overemphasized as her intuitiveness aides proper thinking when it comes to both economic and household issues.
Mrs Babalwa Ngonyama, a Chartered Accountant (South Africa), and Chief Executive Officer of Sinayo Securities, a South-African-listed equity sales and trading firm, recently discussed in an interview with Amazons Watch Magazine the rise of women to leadership positions in Africa. The Businesswoman also shared her success story. Except:
As younger women across regions have begun to learn from both the mistakes and strides of the older generation; and identifying the urgent need to have people to look up to on their journey towards career excellence, it is necessary that they look up to healthy role models who will feed them with positive messages which will groom them.
Nusrat Jahan Ara is from Dadoora Village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district of India. She is a graduate of Computer Studies who had always wanted to run a business of her own. She was dissatisfied with her job and decided to quit.
