Describe your professional journey and the challenges with it.My professional journey started right after graduating with a Masters degree in Production Engineering and setting up my company. Five years later, I decided to work with sustainability through social work. I noticed that the social work approach does not work when the field does not offer fair purchasing practices when there’s no fair price in cotton sales. So I went to work with the men in the field, still through social work. I try to forget the challenges I have to face for being a woman. The way Iwas raised, it made no difference if you were a man or a woman, as far as rights were concerned. My father never made that distinction. He always treated us the same, as far as values and abilities. I learned to assert myself and I work in a 90% male-dominated environment, but 1 earned their respect through my abilities and knowledge, showing them that I am as capable and competent as my male colleagues.
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