Tanzania's woman car mechanic conquers man's world

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Tanzania's woman car mechanic conquers man's world

STORY: Tanzania's woman car mechanic conquers man's world DATELINE: Aug. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:53 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Jane working in garage 2. SOUNDBITE (Swahili): JANE ISOWE, Car mechanic STORYLINE: "There is nothing like man-dominated occupations in my vocabulary. Car mechanics has for a long time been viewed as a man's world," said Jane Goodluck Isowe, a woman who runs her car repair workshop at Magomeni Mwembechai in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of Tanzania. Isowe, 49, has been running her own car repair workshop since 1994. "Our communities think that there are occupations, including car mechanics, for men only. To me, that is daydreaming. Women can do any occupation thought to be male-dominated if they decide to do so," the soft-spoken Isowe told Xinhua in a recent interview. "Most of my customers trust me and they always appreciate my work," said the woman mechanic. She said her journey to becoming an accomplished car mechanic st

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