by Oreoluwa | Apr 8, 2020 | Education, STEM-Technology
The times we are in mean that we need to quickly adapt. Although we teach technology skills to girls and women at W.TEC, all our trainings have been in-person with an emphasis on hands-on projects. For a while, I have been thinking through ways to move our trainings...
by Oreoluwa | Apr 6, 2020 | Education, Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
The day W.TEC turned 12, we were featured on TV. The show Gist Nigeria, a production of Channels TV and BBC Africa, featured myself and some of W.TEC’s alumnae. I talked about why it is important to address the gender disparity in technology and our alumnae...
by Oreoluwa | Apr 3, 2020 | Girls-Women, Life
This is a good article about how the COVID-19 pandemic will wreak havoc on women’s rights globally. Helen Lewis writes about the dangers of treating the pandemic in a gender-neutral way, with no analysis of the difference ways it is affecting the sexes. Historically,...
by Oreoluwa | Apr 1, 2020 | Life
I shared this at the start of this year. Although this year has been filled with turmoil on the global and national stage from the crashing oil prices, falling into an economic recession and the biggie: the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore far from glorious, I remain...
by Oreoluwa | Feb 11, 2020 | Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
I learnt a song when I was younger and the chorus rang “It’s a small world after all…” I can’t remember any of the other words. These lyrics came back to me when I visited Port Elizabeth in South Africa, as part of a study visit for the...
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