Feature: Chinese-built SGR provides career development opportunities to Kenyan women locomotive drivers

NAIROBI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- While growing up in a farming village in north-western Kenya, Tabitha Kiplimo had to defy entrenched gender stereotypes to prove that career success was not a preserve of her male peers.

The 30-year-old electrical engineering major was recruited by the contractor of the 480-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) soon after graduation, where her skills and agility proved to be a valuable asset.