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Female Int’l graduate vows to shine in male-dominated profession The 23-year-old Zambian civil engineer Tadalisika Zulu, who trained at the Wuhan University of Technology in China, believes women have what it takes to venture into male-dominated professions like engineering. LUSAKA, May 15 (Xinhua) — Inspired to make a difference in promoting infrastructure development in the country, a young Zambian female engineer says she is determined to overcome the myth that engineering is only for men by making a meaningful contribution to the profession. Tadalisika Zulu, a 23-year-old civil engineer, says she wants to prove that women have what it takes to venture into tough professions like engineering which society feels is only meant for men. Zulu, a Clerk of Works at the China-funded Kenneth Kaunda International Conference Center, and an intern in the Department of Public Infrastructure in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, said she faced resistance from male general workers at the project who could not believe that a young female could be an engineer. “I spent two weeks on this project trying to tell the general workers that I am not a translator but an engineer. They would literally tell me, madam, there are no…