Chileshe Kapwepwe Quotes

What you can achieve or what you are capable of is taken away simply because you are a woman.

But had it been a man taking up the same position, none of this would have come up. It is just taken on face value that men are capable and that’s why they get into these high positions.

I would say, yes. You know, when a woman gets into a position of power, even me as secretary general of COMESA, a lot of people assumed it was given to me because “it’s time a woman led COMESA”. But the facts are that I did not get into this position as a token.

There are just so many complex issues that come in when women are vying for positions in politics – issues that usually suppress women all the time, but not the men.

But we should applaud ourselves where we have women in these positions because in some respects we have moved up, more so in the corporate world where there is more of a level playing field than in politics. This perhaps is because in politics the chances for women to make it higher up are harder.