Tlou lauds BSEL for women empowerment

Botswana Stock Exchange Limited (BSEL) has been applauded for championing women empowerment, as the bourse employs more women. Speaking at the BSEL Woman Day commemoration recently, Shiela Tlou Co-Chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition and the Co- Chair of the Nursing Now Global Campaign commended that 56 percent of the company’s staff members are women. “Not concentrated in the lower levels but right there in the executive management positions where women make up 57 percent of senior staff members,” Tlou said the women empowerment at BSEL is an encouragement. “BSEL is showing us that there is no such thing, as a glass ceiling, it is a bunch of men’s bodies up there that just need to be moved,” said the country’s former health minister. She said BSEL should lead the industry to find innovative ways to removing barriers and accelerate progress for gender equity. Tlou bemoaned that women throughout the world are not where they should be, according to the Sustainable Development Framework Agenda 2030 of Beijing.“However, we do celebrate the achievements of women in different sectors of development in our society,” Tlou said.Meanwhile, United Nations indicates that 740 million women currently make their living in the informal economy with limited access to social protection, public service and infrastructure that would increase their production and income security. “If we could invest in young people now, the world would double its current status by 2050. The future is bright, the future is female,” Tlou said.