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Carving way out of adversary: Dr. Amita Singh Standing Strong and Proud with Unfettered Imagination and Individualism
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he civil engineering industry is growing at a fast pace today. Women in construction are breaking ground in a male-dominated industry. By 2022, it is expected that women will make up 46.8% of the construction industry, as research findings. Construction, civil engineering in specific, has always been a male-driven field. It is still predominantly male, but it has come a long way in terms of diversity, including other minorities. It is starting to change. The participation or presence of a Women Leads Engineer’s or key person in this field is still a rare sight in India. On this International Women’s Day, we take a moment to dig into Dr Amita Singh’s experience. In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8, and this year’s theme considers, we are featuring stories from our leaders, describing their own bold moments about workplace equality and honouring diversity and inclusion. Dr. Amita Singh, a Health Safety and Environment Specialist professional, presently working as HSE Engineer/Manager at CDMSMITH Qatar, is a lady who paved her way out of adversaries, faced the challenges of a male-dominated sector but never forgot to chase the field of her choice and profession of her dreams. She is definitely a source of inspiration to several ladies who hold the ambition of doing something which is not a stereotype, new and challenging. “As she defines her current, our company promotes equal opportunities for both men and women because we recognize that it doesn’t matter about the gender of a person, as long as they can provide the key skills and experience necessary to benefit our company and our clients in terms of innovation, broadening our approach and strengthening ourselves within the industry. We are stronger with a diverse team and our successes, year-on-year, as we’ve increasingly diversified our teams and brought more women into the industry, shows that.” Parting a govt. sector and opting for a Private job was never so easy. But Dr. Singh made it happen. She undoubtedly is a source of inspiration to millions of women like her who dare to dream but forget to chase simply because her dreams deny society’s parameter, the parameters that states a woman, the task which should or should not be done. She likes the passion for society’s challenges, whether a specific task conforms with so-called womanhood or not and has done it for several years. On a general note, if we talk of Indian society, a woman’s task ought to be soft, requiring less physical effort, easy or comfortable. Dr. Singh broke the myth, and she
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Dr. Amita Singh Health Safety and Environment Specialist
METRO RAIL NEWS | March 2021
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