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 | 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...
by Oreoluwa | Dec 30, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Girls-Women
In June, I had the wonderful opportunity to moderate a panel at the launch of the Standard Chartered Bank #SCWomeninTech programme. #SCWomeninTech is a programme designed specifically by Standard Chartered for women-led technology ventures (specifically, early-to-mid...
by Oreoluwa | Apr 3, 2019 | Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
There are some fantastic resources out now for people interested in gender and the intersection of gender and technology. Here are a few recently published reports: 1.) Report from Plan International “Girls Challenging the Gender Rules”:...
by Oreoluwa | Mar 22, 2019 | Girls-Women, STEM-Technology
Introduction: The themes of this year’s International Women’s Day were “Balance for better” and “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”. Both are fitting when we examine the issue of gender equality in Science, Technology and Engineering, because there...
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