Huawei holds health awareness session for female employees

Huawei South Asia recently held a health awareness session for its female employees as part of its observation of International Women’s Day.

Dr Samia Wahid Muna, a renowned oncology specialist at Huawei Bangladesh Academy, conducted the session, aimed at raising the participants’ awareness on Breast and Cervical Cancer, according to a press release.

Huawei designed this year’s Women’s Day theme as ‘Inspire Inclusion: Empowering Change’ focusing on how Huawei prioritises inclusion as an organisation by addressing gender gap issues and providing equal opportunities to its female employees.

The session also discussed about the exponential career growth of female colleagues within the organisation. 

Lin Xiao, human resources director of Huawei South Asia said, “Huawei ensures equal opportunities for the women and it has always been dedicated to include more and more women in the ICT field. As part of our steadfast commitment to gender equality and inclusion, we have been taking various initiatives like internship, campus recruitment in addition to direct employment programmes over the years. Apart from those, we run multiple programmes like ‘Seeds for the Future’, ‘ICT Skills Competition’ and more, where our female students of universities can participate. Our ‘Women in Tech’ has also included female entrepreneurs and idea-generators. Such initiatives will be carried on.”