Stigma against women working late highlighted at ADB annual meeting

One of the issues highlighted during the ‘30 under 30' seminar at the 52nd Asian Development Bank annual meeting in Nadi was the stigma that women face if they are working late.

One of the panelists in the seminar, Melinda Naicker, who is the Manager Internal Audit at Energy Fiji Limited says if women work late, people tend to question their character.

Naicker says this has been changing now.

She added that in Fiji, they have good values and culture from their parents and the community.

Another participant, Adelene Tutu, who is the founder of Get Lean Fiji Program says that her aim is to help Fiji tackle the non-communicable diseases crisis in Fiji.

Tutu says since Fiji has a young population, why not start now.

Ratu Sitiveni Raseru, who is the Operations Supervisor (Vanua Levu) at Fiji Pine Limited says one challenge for him is to make decisions and to stick with the decision.

Aakash Sharma who is a Technical Services Engineer (Power Plants) at Fiji Airways highlighted the issue of not having work experience when graduating and it being one of the main criteria for being hired.

He says this may discourage new graduates from applying for the positions.

Sharma says he is grateful to the government for introducing initiatives which allows students from high schools to go into the industry and see how the industry operates.

Commonwealth Games bronze medalist, Winston Hill says for him one significant barrier to progress would be finding the right people who share the same dream and ideas to progress.

Hill says he is thankful for the right support system that has helped him progress.

Web Engineer at ANZ Pacific Operations, Alvindra Dutt says they want to make a difference in their field of work.

Dutt says it always discouraged him when people are hired from outside of Fiji from their field of work.

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