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How the Beauty of IT Led to a New Love and a Fascinating Career

GE Reports Africa blog profiles Beauty Mtshweni, a Project Manager, Operations & Infrastructure for GE Transportation IT in South Africa. Beauty gave up a full-time job to join a government education programme in the information technology (IT) field which led to a career at GE where she has worked on large projects such as IT network infrastructure implementation on new sites in South Africa and Mozambique. If there's one thing  Beauty doesn't appreciate, it's the sexism that she encounters on occasion. "Sometimes," Beauty says, "there's an automatic assumption that because I'm a woman, I can't  do certain aspects of my job. Therefore, I need to work harder and raise my voice higher to be heard." Read More. More about GE in Africa in this BRIEFING. 

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Beauty Mtshweni, Project Manager, Operations & Infrastructure for GE Transportation IT in South Africa

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