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Nigeria: Women Surveyors Tasked on Professionalism
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
14 July 2008
Posted to the web 14 July 2008
Nasidi Adamu Yahaya
Abuja
Women surveyors must realise the challenges preventing them from utilising their potentials in order to check the threat facing the building industry in the country, President, Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, said in Abuja at the weekend.
Mr. Francis O. Adetola, who made this known at the 2nd national conference organised by the Women Association of Quantity Surveyors of Nigeria [WAQSN], said women must rise to the challenges posed by their profession for the country to make any meaningful development.
He said: "professional women need to realise the challenges preventing them from utilising their potentials to the fullest and be ready to face them.
Women must realise that the industry offers them tremendous opportunities for employment, entepreneurship and financial security and that women represent a huge untapped resource for an industry begging for skilled labour and talented professionals".
Mr. Adetola who was represented by Felix Okereke-Onyeri, noted that the reasons for the low percentage of women participating in the building industry include domestic involvement, geographical and economic instability among others.
Speaking earlier, Chairperson of WAQSN, Mrs. Mercy T. Iyortyer had said that the conference was aimed at finding a way out to the challenges facing women professionals especially in the building industry.
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She lamented that women were in the past, constrained to raising of children without a room to exploit their potentials, noting that without women the society cannot develop.
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