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AAWORD/AFARD was created after discussion between women scholars who met in Lusaka in Zambia in December 1976. [3] In its early years, AAWORD was supported by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4] In 1977, 1983 and 1988 it held general assemblies in Dakar.
Lower levels of wealth, access to capital, racial discrimination and inadequate networks have been and continue to be barriers to entrepreneurship women of colour face. [9] The term entrepreneur is used to describe individuals who have ideas for products and/or services that they turn into a working business. In earlier times, this term was ...
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a non-profit organization with offices in Washington, D.C., United States, New Delhi, Ranchi, and Jamtara, India, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. ICRW works to promote gender equity, inclusion and shared prosperity within the field of international development.
The Women's University of Science and Technology, which is the first all-women's university in Kenya, allows women to access higher education and entrepreneurial training. [32] These programs have empowered women to create small to medium-size enterprises, such as tailoring and bead-making.
Globally, women are largely under-represented in STEM-related fields; this under-representation is especially prevalent in Africa where women represent less than 20% of the workforce in these fields. [1] African women in engineering and STEM related fields are more susceptible to discrimination and to be devalued in African countries. [2]
In collaboration with the MTN Foundation, Women in Tech Africa organized the MTN Girl Code project in 2017. [4] This project sought to increase the number of women participating in the MTN App Challenge (an MTN initiative run annually), [5] improve the number of ladies in the coding ecosystem in Ghana and encourage the number of female in the African Startup eco-system.
The current major problem in African studies that Mohamed (2010/2012) [4] [5] identified is the inherited religious, Orientalist, colonial paradigm that European Africanists have preserved in present-day secularist, post-colonial, Anglophone African historiography. [4]
For Akob, the most significant problem with mainstream feminism is that it fails to recognize that women living in different parts of the world face very different kinds of oppression. The rigidity of western feminist ideals means that mainstream feminism does not accommodate tradition, and looks down upon women who choose traditional roles. [ 20 ]