The women of SoulProviders.
Allow me to open this post with words from Aibileen Clark from the motion picture The Help
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important”
SoulSisters.
The women here at SoulProviders took to the two popular social networks #Facebook and #Twitter to share their opinions on a question posed by Represent’s editor, Bheki Khoza. “In your opinion, Looking at 2013, have the woman of 1956 achieved their set goals when it comes to woman’s progress? ”
After a week of creative analysis on the question mashed with a tint of femininity, these brave sisters returned with their opinions guns blazing they all focused on the diverse progress women have achieved in the last 5 decades. Read their stand points on the subject below.
Sarah-Jane Boden – SoulProviders Chief Firestarter. @sisiwami
“As an entreprenette & founder of SoulProviders, a proudly female-majority business, I know for sure that every woman I work with at SoulProviders has the brightest of futures and that every day the exemplary work they produce only forges us further forward. I thank the brave women of 1956 for paving the way for us to get out of the kitchen and into the boardroom. Onwards and upwards!”
.
Managing Editor –Digital PR and Content – @VanessaHB10
“While I think the 20 000 amazingly brave women who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria 57 years ago would be astonished by the unexpectedly smooth transition South Africa has made into democracy, and the freedom that women in our country have today, they would still have plenty to march about in terms of health and education – but we’ll get there!”
.
Khumo Ntoane Content Researcher and Resident Nerd @khumoyachaba
“I tend to shy away from words such as PROGRESS because they are linear and stagnant. I think women’s lib is still far from being achieved because we look at it as a movement that’s only for women. Although there have been numerous shifts in women’s roles in society they need to be a lot more common and widely accepted without leaving men behind or feeling disempowered. i.e. it should be natural to identify women as Leaders, inventors, homemakers, scientists’ etc. not just as women-leaders, women-inventors etc.”
.
Nokwanda Zakiyyah Shabangu Content Manager @NokShabangu
“Politically speaking, the Women of 1956 ignited the movement in the right direction. With 9 women in Parliament as ministers, in 2013 it is safe to say that we have begun to transform our views about the roles Women ought to play. Socially speaking, the Women of 1956 did what they could but on a larger scale our generation still lacks the open-mindedness to be conscious of the fact that Women are more than their wombs, wives and, workers of the kitchen.”
.
.
.
Deirdre Mullan – Business Manager
“I feel that women have come a long way since the 50’s but we still have a few hills to climb, but being the strong women we are, I feel this will be achieved in time. Women are the nurtures in most families and we will always be, therefore I think most women will continue to take on the lion’s share of the family responsibilities”
.
.
.
Thina Mazulu Zulu Digital Content Manager – Pan African brands – @Thinamazulu
“To a certain degree YES – we can truly be whatever we dream to be. We wear multiple hats, juggling the roles of: sister, friend, mother, sometimes father, social change advocate, nurturer, lover etc – while gracefully making our way up the career ladder in sky high heels & shattering glass ceilings. Our duty now is to emulate the example of camaraderie set by the women of 1956 by extending a hand to our fellow sisters who are yet to get to the levels we’ve achieved.”
.
.
.
.
Noz Ginindza Head of Client Management & Projects @Sugarplum1301
“I do believe that the women of 2013 have achieved goals set by the women of 1956, and have even surpassed them. We as women today are able to juggle being in boardrooms and making sure that things at home are taken care of too, with some women singlehandedly raising their kids and being great role models. A lot of women are now heading and owning thriving corporations, which goes to show the strides that have been taken.”
.
.
Violet Maila Digital Content Producer – Pan African brands @VioletMaila
“Women have conquered the stereotype, we always have and will continue to do right for our world. I believe women are going to fix this world. We were made for it”
.
.
Nicole Gazard – Head of Content & Systems @nicolegazard
“I am so proud of the powerful women that I know and work with. We work with integrity and pride and we are capable of juggling so many things while doing the work we love. I believe we’ve come a long way, but there is always another obstacle to overcome. As women we need to keep pushing harder to reach all the goals and dreams that men never thought possible.”
These are the opinions expressed by the women of SoulProviders, a true fit to the opening words by Aibileen Clark – They are Kind, They are smart and They are VERY Important. The women at SoulProviders wish every women a Happy Women’s Month.
