I love this story, from NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton:
a Nigerian woman on a mission has founded a program to train other women to be
first-rate auto mechanics.
Yes, we’re talking the No. 1 Lady
Mechanic Initiative. (Apologies to Mma Precious Ramotswe.)
What I particularly like is the quote from a 2009
graduate, Faith Macwen, who’s now working for what must be a sought-after auto
company: When male colleagues put her down, she says, “But we made them realize—I
made them realize—we can do it.”
It’s the fact that she changed the first-person
pronoun from plural to single that drives the point home. She’s fully aware of
her own achievement.
You go, girls!
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