The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), Kingsley Achife, Tuesday, said IBEDC has scaled up gender mix for female employees up to 20 percent.
He dropped this hint while speaking at the conference for women in the organisation christened ‘Disco4Women Conference, 2022,’ held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
Represented by the Chief Business Transformation and Strategy Officer, Mr Iranola Ayodeji, the IBEDC MD said the company is to improve the gender mix for female employees to at least 20 percent.
Achife said, “IBEDC is at the forefront of Gender Equality in the power sector in Nigeria” and that the company is premised on statistics which indicated that women in leadership roles perform better than their male counterparts in strategic decision making.
He noted that the company sees engendering as one of its main growth strategies in the medium and long term, as the virtues women are known for cannot be overshadowed by cold hard facts and figures that male managers tend to base their decision on.
“For so long a period, the Nigerian power industry has been seen as the domain of the male gender. This fact is even buttressed by the terminologies used to identify roles in the industry e.g., linesmen, draftsmen etc. However, I am pleased to inform you that IBEDC have changed the narrative by being the first Disco to adopt more gender friendly nomenclatures such as lines worker,” he said.
