SEW-Eurodrive South Africa was announced as the winner of the Top Gender Empowered Company award in the Mining, Engineering and Construction sector during a recent ceremony held in Johannesburg to celebrate the Top Woman in Business and Government Awards.
This award goes to the company that demonstrates the most success in tackling and improving gender empowerment in their respective sector. Important factors are measurable and accountable leadership that is committed to developing women in the company and the per capita expenditure on training, education and development of women.
Accepting the award SEW’s GM for marketing and sales, Ms Ute Bormann, commented that the company has made a natural progression towards employing women. “It has been the outlook of SEW-Eurodrive to employ people according to their skills and natural ability not focusing on race or gender. Women have a natural attention to detail, something which is of extreme importance in engineering, and probably in any business.”
Ute Bormann (right) receiving the award on behalf of SEW-Eurodrive from Connie Nkosi – non-executive chairman: First Technology
In a largely male dominated arena, SEW-Eurodrive South Africa has made a point of employing females in management positions. “We sometimes find our clients taken aback by the fact that it is a woman on the other end of the line, but it has had a positive effect in the industry,” adds Bormann.
According to Bormann the industry has responded positively to the finesse and logical problem solving abilities which women have brought to the company. Women in the company receive the backing of the management team and, according to other female staff in the company, SEW-Eurodrive has uplifted the status of women in the engineering field.
Ute Bormann was also a finalist in the Top Woman Executive Award.
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