Women urged to become innovators, enhance financial equity

 Segun Adebayo

This year’s edition of International Women’s Day [IWD] has come and gone but not without interesting lessons to be learnt, particularly for the womenfolk.

Organizations seized the opportunity of the day to encourage and enlighten women to exhibit their creative talents without reservation to their gender.

The Dr Siju Iluyomade’s led Handmaiden, a platform for Women In Leadership Series [WiLS], organised an educative forum for the womenfolk to commemorate this year’s edition of the International Women’s Day with the theme: Leading Women, Leveraging Technology in Market Place said women must continue to show capacity in every endeavour.

Held at the City of David Sanctuary, Redeemed Christian of Church, Oniru Lagos, various young speakers were on hand to give their thoughts on maximizing the influence of technology by the female gender without limitations

Speaking at this year’s celebration, Dr Siju in her words says, “Women, we need to upscale, don’t downgrade, we must embrace technology. We have to be loyal and take difficult decisions no matter how hard they may be, gender equality is not only a right, it’s a fundamental human right. ”

The trained Lawyer of many years who is equally the convener of Arise Women said they are emphasizing young women now because they are the present and future of technological discoveries.

Others who spoke at the event included Husseina Yesufu, the Head of Global Partnership at Flutterwave who also emphasized on young womenfolk to be technology driven and creative in their daily activities. Also, Mrs Eyitope Kola-Oyeniyi says technology is the thing that can change the landscape and must be embraced by all women. “As a human leveraging on technology, you must adapt to whatever is provided to you and Artificial Intelligence cannot do that,” says Sarah Boulos one of the discussants,

Jadesola Adedeji, Foluso Gbadamosi, Tomi Majekodunmi, Solape Akinpelu, Dr Joy Isa and Mrs Folake Sanusi were among the distinguished women who joined the discussion of Handmaiden, Women in Leadership Series special edition of International Women’s Day [IWD].

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