by Oreoluwa | Apr 13, 2020 | Career, Girls-Women, Life, STEM-Technology
Amidst the tough times we find ourselves in, I am happy for opportunities to celebrate. So it was a lovely surprise to receive an email from OkayAfrica that started off: We are proud to announce that you have been selected as one of the 2020 honorees for...
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”:...
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