Today marks International Women’s Day, recognized by many countries around the world with the message of women empowerment and rights to promote gender equality and equal opportunities for women and girls.
In the spirit of commemorating IWD, we went around the departments of PNGFM, the parent company of the 3 commercial radio stations, NauFM YumiFM and LegendFm to find out their views of this special day for women.
This years theme for IWD is DIgitALL: Innovation and Technology for gender equality. This captures the role of innovative technology in promoting gender equality and meeting health and development needs of women and girls.
As for Papua New Guinea, not a lot has been done to celebrate the occasion but generally people around the city get the significance of what role women play in PNG Society.
In line with the IWD 2023 theme, today we gave women and their male allies a chance to express their opinions on the commemoration of this important day.
Most people expressed great happiness for the recognition given to women, reiterating the great strides that women have made to empower other women to achieve their goals and visions. Such can be said for PNGFM.
Over three quarters of the PNGFM management team comprises of hard working, driven and competent women. From the content team to sales and administration, the company has gone great lengths to promote diversity and inclusivity with an emphasis on merit based performance.
In saying this the company is proud that it has provided an avenue to promote this cause and is looking to do more to empower more women to reach out and work hard to achieve their dreams.