A family is a group of parents and children living together
in a household. In a typical African family, the man used to go to work while
the woman stayed at home and took care of the home. In modern African times.
The proverbial male bread winner is no more. Time after time, women have slowly
crept into the world of work. There are so many women at work that you may
think the male is an endangered species.
Women are not just turning up for work do the hours. Women
are excelling at work too. In Uganda there is an ever growing list of women
running and steering successful businesses and organizations. Allen Kagina, the
current Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority and Jennifer Musisi,
the current Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority are a few
examples that come to my mind.
How do these women play their God given family roles and
still become wildly successful people? Success at work requires that you invest
your time, your energy and in other circumstances your money at the work place.
Success at work means that you will not leave office until that late submission
is handed in. Success at work means that you will keep working until the solution
has been found. Success at work means that you will further invest time and
money in your studies to learn more and keep afloat in the job market. Success at work does not come handed to you on
a silver plate.
One way women have excelled at both family and work
frontlines is by working smart. Women are natural jugglers but it takes extra
smartness to juggle work and family. It is not uncommon for women to engage in
businesses that are cultivated around the homestead. Businesses like selling
foods, cakes, snacks, handmade crafts and clothes and cards are business that will
not necessarily keep a woman away from the home.
In Uganda business like Dis n’ Dat (U) Ltd and the Mama
Tendo Foundation were founded because a woman dared to juggle. They dared to
juggle between family and business.
Alex Agaba
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