GlobalCitizen Prize winner AminaJMohammed wants to ask you an important question about making change happen
. Sting. H.E.R. Jorja Smith. The special performances by these stars is just one of the reasons you should watch the Global Citizen Prize this weekend. But there’s another big reason you should tune in for – and her name is Amina J. Mohammed.The inaugural ceremony, which took place on 13 December in London, celebrates the work of world leaders, artists, business leaders, and youth activists, who keep the world’s poor at the forefront of their life’s work. And UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J.
I think that you have to hang on to your identity and utilise it. Don’t park it and leave it in the cupboard and come out trying to be someone or something else to occupy that space. I think once you do that, you celebrate your womanhood and your feminism and you show that it is actually a good part and a ‘value add’ to humanity.
If it’s in a boardroom it’s different from when you’re tackling these things for the government and you’re in parliament or you’re in the judiciary – which is also not a very female domain.I think that when you’re in a room that you’re privileged to be in and you’ve finally made it but all you see opposite you is a bunch of men, ask the question: “Where are the women?” And we often don’t because we’re not sure if we’ll upset the apple cart and we’ll be out before we’re even in.
So your power is with all those tools that you access that one can’t take away from you. Then you’re in a real position of empowerment. And you might step back a couple of steps, but you will go forward a few more the day after.What women have influenced you along the way? Sahle-Work Zewde, who’s our president in Ethiopia today who is supporting a Prime Minister with a vision to really make a change in that region which has never been lifted. And Gozia Conjure Weller, who did so much in the finance world for us in changing the way people thought about having inclusive economies and development.The threat of inequality. I think that’s growing. When that does start to grow, we’re the first to get hit.
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