By: Linette Lim
Women make up just a third of the booming tech industry’s workforce. The question is, how far does gender bias from the time they are in school play a part? In 2008, Fiona Tay made history by becoming the first female to win the Singapore Physics Olympiad. Fast-forward eight years, and she is still challenging gender stereotypes, although she is nowhere to be found near a physics lab.
Gender equality has recently been viewed as not just a phenomenon, but a reality that all have to embrace if countries are to achieve international, continental, regional and sustainable development.
This idea put forward by Botswana’s Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Gladys Kokorwe who was speaking at the SADC ministers of gender and women’s affairs meeting, formed topic of discussion.
Ghana’s First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, has recently charged her fellow African First Ladies to champion the rights of the adolescent girls in order to protect them against societal norms and violence.
“Until each citizen, appreciates the importance of protecting adolescent girls, ending gender norms, and violence against girls, we must continue to advocate, until our technocrats,
