‘I don’t feel intimidated in the midst of men’
http://ift.tt/2qtb75T Mukhtar Fatima Batul Mukhtar, former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the North West University (NWU) in Kano, a professor of Botany, with bias for Plant Physiology, the current Vice Chancellor, Federal University, Dutse (FUD) in Jigawa State, one of the two women recently appointed in that capacity, told MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR in Abuja that she was more than ever ready to confront the challenges facing the institution head-on, insisting she does not feel intimidated in the midst of men, when it comes doing her work. As a woman from the core north occupying this position, do you feel intimidated? (Laughs) No, I don’t feel intimidated at all, because I have been working for several years now and I have been used to being alone in the midst of men and I have always gained the support of the men. They have never looked at me as a woman. For example, I rose through the ranks in my teaching career in the university, starting as Assistant Lecturer through to my current profe...
