ATNS participates at the Aviation Gender Summit

ATNS participates at the Aviation Gender Summit

August 10, 2018 • Air, Transport

Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) SOC Limited is actively participating at the first ever Global Aviation Gender Summit in Africa. It started on Wednesday, 8 August 2018, at the Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The Summit ends today.

Approximately six-hundred (600) delegates from across the globe are at the event.

The Aviation industry is a trillion-dollar industry and employs approximately sixty-two (62) million people worldwide. One of the main focus areas of the Summit is the “ creation of an environment that is more gender-balanced and provides for equal opportunities for women”, according International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Secretary General, Dr Fang Liu, who earlier participated in a panel discussion that included former South African Deputy President and current UN Women’s Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Deputy Minister of Transport, Sindisiwe Chikunga

Tendani Ndou, Principal of the ATNS Training Academy was one of the guest speakers at the summit. Her paper primarily focused on various gender issues, including but not limited to gender roles and relations, the influence of socialising agents on gender roles, the status quo of gender equity and overcoming gender bias within the aviation industry. “It is time that we dissect the core of gender inequality, not only in the aviation industry but across all sectors”.

The Summit, is hosted by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), under the auspices of the ICAO and in conjunction with the South African Department of Transport

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