In this special series by MONEY FM 89.3, we speak to three females who took the leap of faith and pursued careers in industries dominated by men. Despite the gender norms placed on their jobs, they pushed through and have even been awarded for their work.

AMELIA PICKERING, HARBOUR PILOT, PSA MARINE
Women’s rights and gender equality are taking centre stage in 2020. But for some women, the fear of gender discrimination has never stopped them from pursuing their dream and Amelia Pickering is one of them.
Inspired by her father, she shares how she started her journey in the Maritime industry and some of the challenges she faced being a female Harbour Pilot.

RACHEL WONG, MANAGING DIRECTOR, MARUNDA UTAMA ENGINEERING PTE LTD
In an industry still dominated by men, Managing Director of Marunda Utama Engineering Pte. Ltd., Rachel Wong, makes no excuses and rose to the challenge as she clinched The Entrepreneur Award for the second year running in 2019. She shares how she started her career in engineering despite the lack of knowledge and experience in the field and how other women can do the same.

11 Dec 2019

28 Nov 2018

 

COL KOH EE WEN, AIRFORCE, MINDEF
Despite the world being more vocal regarding equality for women, the concept of women in uniform still seems foreign to many. In 2016, Koh Ee Wen is one of three female officers to be promoted to colonel, breaking boundaries of what women can or are supposed to do. Today, she is one of the higher ranking officers in the field leading men who are twice her age. She shares some of her challenges working in a male-dominated environment and how she overcame it.

Gender inequality within STEM education
In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Mandy Dimitriadis, Director of Learning at Makers Empires about gender diversity in the education space and why women are still underrepresented in STEM.

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Weekends: Half The Picture: Woman directors in Hollywood
Glenn van Zutphen and award-winning author Neil Humphreys talks to Prashant Somosundram, General Manager, Projector and Jasmine Ng, Co-founder, President of the Singapore Association of Motion Picture Professionals and 1st Vice President of AWARE discuss the new documentary Half The Picture, about gender inequality towards women directors in Hollywood.

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New courses for mums returning to workforce
A survey by Ngee Ann Polytechnic shows that women are highly motivated to continually learn, further their employment prospects as well as earning potential. Christy Chung, Director, Continuing Education & Training Academy, Ngee Ann Polytechnic shares more about it and the challenges mothers face when returning to the workforce.

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Women who learn for life
In Career 360, we find out from Sher-li Torrey, founder of Mums@Work and Rachel Goh, one of their members and budding mumpreneur about recognising how reintegration into the workforce after an extended period of absence can be a big challenge for women.

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Influence: Sodexo's Grace Chung on women and power
They are one of the world's one of the world's largest multinational corporations, with almost half a million employees and a presence in 67 countries. They also believe strongly in gender diversity with internal KPI's for gender parity in positions of influence. Michelle Martin speaks with Grace Chung, Healthcare CEO of APAC, Sodexo about moving the needle on gender imbalance in business.

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Female leaders in the tech industry
In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim chats with Nadya Melic, Global Head of Connectivity & Platforms at Telstra about the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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Unlocking economic opportunities through women leadership
With the recent COVID-19 outbreak that could potentially derail the global economy, economic turbulence is to be expected. To navigate such market challenges, women’s leadership in business is critical in driving significant economic opportunities. We speak to Elisa Mallis, Managing Director and Vice President of Asia-Pacific at the Center for Creative Leadership. They recenrtly launched a research report on the challenges faced by women today in leadership roles.

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How remote working closes the gender gap
Remote working allows women flexibility and increased productivity as they need to pursue a career and raise a family at the same time. As a result, fewer women are leaving their jobs mid-career, and more women are rising to the top. Joey Lim, Commercial Lead, APAC at Lark shares with us on how remote working can close gender gap as well as ensure working mums are able to flourish in their career

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Women in Business 2020
Grant Thornton’s annual study looks at a variety of areas for such women in senior management and how businesses are following aspects of diversity. And it found that only 20 per cent of businesses globally now have a female CEO. We speak to Sze Min Yu, Director at Grant Thornton on this long standing hot-button topic of gender bias in business.

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Advancing gender equality in the financial industry
Madeline Ho, Executive Managing Director & Head of Wholesale Fund Distribution, Asia Pacific at Natixis Investment Managers and Celeste Tay, Macro-strategist, Loomis Sayles share their struggles and successes in making progress in the financial industry, and what more can be done to break down barriers.

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Why one in two Singaporean women say they are underpaid
In the latest Robert Half survey, reveals that 54 percent of female office workers feel underpaid, compared to only 40 percent of their male counterparts. Fen Teo, Associate Director, Robert Half talks to us about why women in Singapore feels this way and what they can do to receive a better pay in their next job.

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Weekends: International Women's Day
Join Glenn van Zutphen as he speaks to Corinna Lim, Executive Director, AWARE about how AWARE celebrates international women's day and subsequent events that will occur over weeks leading up to Superwomen in Concert, a fundraising concert by AWARE held at Esplanade Concert Hall.

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Weekends: Women in Singapore
Join Glenn Van Zutphen as he speaks to Corinna Lim, Executive Director, AWARE about the current status of the woman population in Singapore and how can change occur to help women get back into the workforce.

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Navigating the male-dominated tech world
In Mind Your Business, Howie Lim speaks to Mieke De Schepper, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Amadeus IT Group about her journey through the male-dominated world of tech, women in leadership and gender parity.

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The Soul of Business: Female Leaders in Tech
Join Claressa Monteiro, as she speaks to Pamela Ong, Head of Sales ESET APAC and Jane Ng, Head of Marketing ESET APAC about being women working in IT, an industry that is generally perceived to be male-dominated and how they have risen to the occasion, overcoming the challenges.

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Influence: Succeeding as a female leader in the e-commerce industry
Michelle Martin speaks to Gunjan Soni, CEO of Zalora about the impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the company and traits she thinks women need to succeed as we celebrate International Women's Day this week.

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