More women are flooding the business world in recent times with the knowledge that women can be and do whatever they choose. With this news zeal, some women have made costly mistakes while some others struggle to break even- only a few have had an almost smooth sailing journey.
In order to bridge the gender gaps and create an enabling avenue for women to thrive in emerging economies, it is important for already established women to lend a helping hand to other women across regions through mentorship, valuable tips, as well as different forms of empowerment.
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.
