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born 1958 Zambia
Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe, is a Zambian accountant and corporate executive, who serves as the Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), effective 18 July 2018. She made history as the first woman to be elected to the position at the 20th COMESA Heads of State and Government Summit held in Lusaka, Zambia's capital city.
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We have many women now leading big financial institutions, which many people never imagined a woman could lead.
The skills and abilities anyone brings to a job are what matter, not because you are a man or woman.
What you can achieve or what you are capable of is taken away simply because you are a woman.
Once women are able to have this strong base, they will have a much stronger voice to speak up against exclusion.
The assumption is always that if it’s a man, he will succeed and a woman will struggle and fail. This mindset needs to be changed and done away with.
Solutions don’t just lie in the boardrooms run by managers, they can start from the grassroots. And solutions that are technology-based are great because you can reach more people.
I also believe that no matter at what level of your career, as a woman you have to have a good balance between your work life and your family life.
There are just so many complex issues that come in when women are vying for positions in politics – issues that usually suppress women all the time, but not the men.
But I think it is important for all women who have succeeded and achieved in their own right, to find the time to mentor and create reality for this future generation.
For example, we know cases where if a woman just raises her voice to make a point, she is often told she is hysterical or aggressive, but when a man does the same it’s accepted as being assertive.
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