“You Know You’re a Woman, Serve the Men Tea”

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","alignment":"left"}},{"id":"mGYTuwvudS","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"“You know you're a woman, please serve the men tea”, Professor Driekie Hay-Swemmer, Executive Director and Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), while admonishing the ladies during her Welcome Address at the EmpowHer CPUT programme in South-Africa recalled. She said that she found herself in male-dominated academia, where she was always asked to serve tea to male colleagues because she was the only woman in the room. However, one day, she kicked against cultural and societal expectations to say “enough, I will never ever in my life serve tea for anyone just because I'm a woman.\" "}},{"id":"VhySoGf4pc","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Earlier, Hay-Swemmer admonished the ladies saying that “playing fields are not yet equal but that's okay, we will get there… build that resilience and attitude that I am okay, I'm good enough…you will have to believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself and in your dreams nothing will come true, nothing”"}},{"id":"s_i9EfNfxZ","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Personally, “enough” is one of the words I find to be the crux of freedom. Enough of being cheated, looked down on, trampled upon, shoved around, beaten, and so on. Whenever a woman feels she has had enough of any kind of abuse, she starts walking to freedom. I find the camaraderie of World Pulse a walk to freedom, using the logic model which thrives on relationships. EmpowHer too, thrives on building relationships, applying the 5Ws and 1H Framework- What, Why, When, Where, Who and How as follows:"}},{"id":"1JuB-hB7VY","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"What- EmpowHer"}},{"id":"Pi3aK0vgoG","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Why-Emancipation of Women and Girls"}},{"id":"4epDa09C_g","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"When- Now"}},{"id":"QFvdpjOcoQ","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Where- Africa "}},{"id":"jvpC3nNurR","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Who- Women & Girls in Higher Educational Institutions"}},{"id":"prTwqeOsiU","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"How- Through Mentorship"}},{"id":"aTOrDXJlJ4","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"

Join us to walk the talk, will you?

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