It is sometimes said that people should be encouraged to get married before they are 30, as this is best both for the individual and for society. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Engineering is the most male-dominated field in the world. It may perhaps be the most male-dominated profession in Sri Lanka, with women making up only a mere 1% of the engineering workforce. Many scholars have found that female students do as well or better than male students in schools, but often point to the hegemonic masculine culture of engineering itself as a reason for leaving.
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, despite how I
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in gender stereotypical ways, mostly by my peers, I am always trying to stand out from the crowd. My family is an extended family, and most of our relations are living in the
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while I am being the only girl among the children. Because all my cousins were men, I learned how to compete with them by mastering skills not only related to education but
also
related to life that are necessary for surviving in society. My passion for engineering became
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an engineer, and within a short period of
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I was able to promote to a senior position
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involves not only engineering but
also
managing people.
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is where I faced many difficulties as most of the people that I get to manage were much older men than me and had greater experience in their fields. At
first
, they did not want to follow my orders as the supervisor, yet I found a way to get them onto my path. I tried to get close to them by solving issues related to
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that they faced every day, and eventually I learned to listen to them, which brought a greater impact when moving as a team. I made myself
as
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a listener and I appreciated my teammates for their achievements and initiatives they have taken on behalf of
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well being, regardless of how small they were, yet they started trusting me and even following me. Other than my carrier, I am a director of
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company
owned by my husband where I have responsibilities mostly related to human resources management including recruiting. In
this
role, I always try to put myself as a transformational leader because I value employee
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and I want our
company
to succeed through
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as well as
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team. Currently, as a
company
, we serve more than 700 local clients and 300 international clients. Even though most
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scale companies lost their income with the Covid-19 pandemic, we managed to stay in the business and help our employees to cope with the situation. I have been working in the director position
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2016, and I have been dealing with many challenges as a daughter, a wife, an engineer and as a director. Though I feel that I am successful with
work life
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balance, yet I strongly trust that there are much more to learn and I always try to find answers to the question “is there a better way?”.
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I can master
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skills that are offered at your institution, and I will be able
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in
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highest
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standard and give a better outcome to stakeholders. To conclude, I’m keen to earn an MBA at the University Canada West and become one of the best engineering entrepreneurs in the field.
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