She spoke at the International Women’s Day 2025 Session organised by the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) and held virtually.
Peers appealed to women across fields to collaborate, keep promoting gender equality and building more webs, and, by extension, bridges for women’s professional development.
“When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion. The coming together of many women births change,” she said.
The forum attracted the President of APWEN, Dr Adebisi Osim, and was chaired by the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Mrs Margaret Oguntala, who was represented by Dr Felicia Agubata, a vice president of the NSE.
In her speech, Osim, a civil engineer, said while progress had been made, there was still much more to be done, adding that as women engineers, scientists and leaders, they stood at the forefront of innovation and progress, with the power to transform societies and reshape the future.
The guest speaker/Registrar and CEO of the Engineers Board of Kenya, Margaret Ogai, observed the gaps in gender representation and urged women engineers to brace and take part in the Africa Free Trade Continental Agreement.
She stressed the need for women to amplify collective voices to make a greater impact.
In her remarks, a technology entrepreneur, Nora Magero, noted that all 16 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) would present opportunities and challenges for women and called on women to consider joining the engineering fraternity as part of a non-negotiable venture to demand inclusivity of women in the professional sphere.
