From left: Fiji National University Pro Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching Eci Nabalarua, Professor in Education Unaisi Nabobo Baba, Head of School Communication and Language and Literature Zakia Ali Chand and FNU Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Healey at the FNU Nasinu Campus on March 8, 2018. Photo: Shirika Shalini
Fiji National University (FNU) Nasinu campus celebrated International Women’s Day on Thursday.
Head of School Communication, Language and Literature Zakia Ali Chand, said the International Women’s Day had been celebrated or observed worldwide for over a hundred years now.
“It is a day on which we celebrate the courageous and inspiring work women were doing around the world to shape more tolerant and fair societies,” Ms Chand said.
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She said it was also a time to reflect on the work that remains and remember the women whose voices still go unheard and continue to be excluded from realising their potential. The theme for International Women’s Day celebration was ‘Press for Progress.’
She said women were closing the gap in critical areas such as education and health; however, significant gender inequality persists in the workforce and politics.
“Whether through global conferences, community gatherings, classroom lessons or dinner table conversations - everyone must play a purposeful role in pressing for gender parity,” she said.
Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, Professor of Education at FNU said if any women want to achieve something in life she would get it.
“Women have so much in life but they don’t know whereas some women had little but they celebrate more,” Ms Baba said.
She said women do so much and sometimes they forget to pause for a moment which was very important for them.
The women need to be pushed forward and to be represented and at the end to be supported by men.
“We are the mothers to create men and women,” she said.
Edited by Mohammed Zulfikar
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