Panellists: Stop setting own barriers

Empowering women: Panellists and audience after the Women, Who Lead panel discussion at the Kuala Lumpur Library. Pictured front row, third from left to right: Gyles-McDonnough, Hachigian, Yasmin and Dr Rebecca.

KUALA LUMPUR: It’s time women got out of their own way and stopped setting barriers for themselves, women industry leaders said.

“In addition to the structural barriers (to women assuming leadership roles), there are also innate barriers arising from the individual,” said International Trade and Industry Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, who was a panellist at the “Women, Who Lead” panel discussion held here yesterday.