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South Africa: How the Beauty of IT Led to a New Love and a Fascinating Career at GE
GE Africa, 3 March 2017
The GE Reports Africa blog has launched a new series known as “Women in Technology” which profiles GE SSA’s unsung female heroes, highlighting their contribution… Read more »
GE Africa (Lagos)
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.
Beauty Mtshweni, Project Manager, Operations & Infrastructure for GE Transportation IT in South Africa
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