Women scientists should be mentored by other women
Gross under-representation of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields in Africa could be reduced if societal and cultural gender norms, stereotypes, biases, sexual harassment and other discriminatory practices were dealt with at all levels, stated a World Bank expert during International Girls in ICT Day that was observed on 22 April.
According to Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, the World Bank’s country director for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini, the good news is that there are currently numerous innovative initiatives across Africa targeting some of the root causes of inequality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
The Equality Equation: Balancing the Effects of Systemic Racism in Baltimore
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The Equality Equation launches website that highlights projects that prop up the benefit of black economic wellness against systems that have sustained blacks in a permanent underclass.
Equality Equation BALTIMORE (PRWEB) April 14, 2021 Crime, blight, trash, and poverty have become synonymous with Baltimore in the national news. The inability to solve these issues with a black mayor and black city council, implies that no matter how much money is allocated to Baltimore for development and the relief of urban blight, black folk are destined to be the permanent underclass. One caveat of that notion is that black mayors and black city councils are only the faces of chocolate cities, they are not ever in control of the assets. Real estate, procurement, and federal dollars are never controlled by blacks or those sympathetic to
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Women have been making progress for years, but at a glacial pace. Year after year, I see the same bleak numbers: the more or less stagnant percentages of women in senior management, on boards, in finance, in tech, in investing.
However, Covid-19 has been a catalyst and change accelerator in many areas, and while its burdens have fallen disproportionately on women, the pandemic’s effects have not been entirely negative.