Friday, May 3, 2013

Phenomenal women


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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