Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Achieve #Gender #Gender Equality
With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Inspiring #Technology #Generations
Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Inspiring #Fighting #Men
They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Relationship #Country #Successful
Educate a woman, you educate a nation,
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Educate
Equality for women is progress for all.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Progress #Women Equality
Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Equal Pay #Employment #Employers
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Justice #Growth #Democracy
I think we have to continue to protect women on social media, who are coming out in a world that can still be very harsh towards them, so that they do not feel that they are alone. And of course, some of these attacks happen on social media, so we do need to provide a counter narrative - a supportive narrative - so that the voices of those that are punitive towards women does not become the dominant voice.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Thinking #Supportive #World
The fact that women begin to avoid running for public office because of the harassment and sometimes even violence that they face as a hazard, it means that the world is being robbed of extraordinary leadership that women can bring to bear. And of course, if women as professionals begin to look at making career choices because they're looking at whether Am I going to be safe or not? You can imagine the missed opportunities that are out there for women.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Running #Mean #Opportunity
We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Thinking #Skills #Discipline
These days, because women are so active on social media, it is important to be active on the sites of social media that represent the right value system. If you are a student on campus, be part of action groups that exist on campus. The worst thing that can happen to a young person is to be young and not be part of anything that is bigger than you. I think that it's such a missed opportunity, because the future depends on those who walk an extra mile in order to make sure that the world will be better because they have lived in it.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Opportunity #Thinking #Important
I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Hurt #Believe #Men

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