TwoCents | Our Nigeria Women - by Peter Ajetunmobi

There has been a general saying for ages that goes thus -” what a man can do a woman can do better”. I think this was constructed by ladies or our mothers who believed in the coming generation of women. The fact remains that women are intellectually sound. Recently I made a statistical check and to my amazement, the gap between a man and a woman intellectually is just a point-one ratio, and I stand to be corrected if my research is not accurate. The problem is this, there is a narrative holding back our intelligent young vibrant ladies. Research has it that there are fewer ladies in some sectors. <ol> <li>Presidential Sits</li> <li>Admistrative Head </li> <li>I.T Head </li> <li>Engineering head e.t.c </li> </ol> Let me keep asking these questions, why can't a woman be a president? Why can't a lady be the head of a Piloting crew? why can't we hear a lady vying for the post of a governor in a particular state? All these balls down to a belief it is meant for men or it's a man's job. I spoke to a female friend recently about learning crypto and the fact that she can become a successful trader in the crypto world, after hours of sugar-coating and trying to convince this friend of mine, she gave me just a 5-second reply that, “Crypto trading is a man's thing am not interested if you see training for buying and selling or makeup training I would be interested” That was her response because there is a narrative that there are jobs or skills a Women cant learn or a waste of time. This is not TRUE in all sense, I have seen ladies who embraced these challenges but they are few and can be scaled. The genesis of this could be from our parents, who don't charge our sisters for the need to become web designers, product designers, and engineers. And other skills men are rushing to do. There is no problem when your girl child starts learning how to become a software engineer or developer, it must not always be a makeup artist or cake decor, funny enough some men already know how to do this makeup artistry and cake decoration thing. There is no balance in tech schemes and it would cause later problems Let it be known or in history that in the coming year, women held important political seats, those seats were not only meant for men. women, young ladies charge yourself you all can also do this even better than the men, change that discriminating belief and take up the challenge all this in line for a better and competitive Nigeria, Parents should please stop the gender inequality too, it would go a long way because that is the root of where the solution lies.

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