Property of Congruences on Inverse semigroups

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I'm studying Howie's Fundamentals of Semigroup Theory and during the characterization of congruences on inverse semigroups the following property is used a few times:

Let $S$ be an inverse semigroup. Let $\rho$ be a congruence on $S$. Then $(a,b) \in \rho$ $\Rightarrow$ $(a^{-1},b^{-1})\in \rho$.

I tried a few things, but I can't seem to prove this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.