Mrs. Cynthia Kwarteng Tufuor, Tema Regional Manager of the SIC Insurance Company PLC has entreated women in the country to take insurance seriously. She thus, advised women to consider the state insurer – SIC Insurance.
Mrs. Cynthia Kwarteng Tufuor explained that the company has created a congenial atmosphere that attract women to work there comfortably and to seek services from the company.
As a result, the Tema Regional Manager explained that SIC has integrated about 60 per cent of its workforce made up of women as the insurance industry needed qualities of women as they had good listening skills, with the ability to easily create relationships, with persuasive skills.
“Due to the natural qualities of women, they often ventured into the insurance industry as the work involve marketing and convincing clients to roll onto existing schemes,” she noted and encouraged women to explore employment opportunities within the insurance industry.
Speaking on the topic: ‘the prospects of women in the insurance industry,’ in Tema, Mrs. Cynthia Kwarteng Tufuor noted that it was about time that conscious efforts were made by women to push themselves into corporate leadership by upgrading their knowledge and skills in whatever profession they find themselves.
Mrs. Cynthia Kwarteng Tufuor stressed that a well-educated woman that possessed all the required skills, knowledge, confidence, and ability to excel, could grab leadership opportunities anytime, anywhere.
“Women who are empowered with the knowledge and skills will be more productive and well-honoured at whatever working field they find themselves, if women can uphold their skills, they could rise to the occasion when they are called upon.”
Mrs. Cynthia Kwarteng Tufuor
Women in SIC Resolved to Acquire the Necessary Education and Skills
According to the Regional Manager, women in SIC resolved to acquire the necessary education and skills when they realized that fewer women are in leadership, “currently women are climbing the leadership ladder”.
Women’s participation in leadership roles, Mrs Tufuor noted, helped in the advancement of gender equality and affected both the range and quality of policies formulated for the betterment of society. She urged women to support and encourage each other and serve as mentors for the younger ones to aim high, adding that because of lack of mentorship, most women veered off their chosen careers to others.
Mrs. Tufuor opined if women who have gone through the process of reaching the top could carry others along, most fields of professions would have a good number of women in leadership in the next five years and beyond.
Mrs. Tufuor encouraged mothers, married women, and young girls who might have gotten pregnant in their teenage years not to use that as an excuse of not to excelling, stressing that “pregnancy is not an excuse, you still make it.”
