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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An award-winning Filipina engineer said she struggled to gain the respect of her male colleagues and get to where she is now.Forty-two-year-old Engr. Ronnet Closa, who hails from Batangas, said she has had her share of rejections working in a field dominated by men when she started out 21 years ago fresh from college.
"With today's gender-sensitive and inclusive workplace, discrimination against women has become a thing of the past," said Closa, a sustainability advocate whose first job was at a Taiwan semiconductor company in 2003.Engineering runs in the blood. A single mom of a 14-year-old boy named James Jairo, Closa said it was her father who convinced her and her siblings to take up engineering. Four of the five children are now engineers; the other one, a teacher.
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