, despite there being many female executives in the oil industry with the requite experience, skill and competence.
According to her, many national oil companies and even those in the most-conservative climes now understand the need to increase the number of women in leadership positions in the energy sector, while Nigeria is yet to effect such gesture in the nations’ oil sector. She said several types of research have established that institutions with women in the boardroom tend to perform better than those that have less gender-diverse boards, stressing that it is critical for the government to deepen and diversify the oil and gas industry skills pool, and one way to do that is to bring in and retain more talented women.
Ogbue continued: “We would like to call on the President to consider more women for promotion to leadership in the energy sector by appointing more women as heads of agencies, parastatals and institutions.“
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
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