ADEWUYI ROSELINE ADEBIMPE
New words formation trend on different social media platforms from time to time. Today is Thursday. I would like to do a throwback to the International Day of The Girl Child. The event themed "The Power of The Adolescent Girl" was aimed at unleashing and igniting the power of the Girl Child. Topics like female leadership; building confidence as a leader, making healthy decisions and lot more were presented by various people. 56 students were in attendance including boys. We understand the need for boys to be part of this so as to further ensure this cause. International Women’s Day 2023: “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality”
It is International women’s day and this year’s focus is on DigitALL: innovation and technology for gender equality. Currently, there exists a wide gender gap in the IT space and the reason is that, for years, women have beloved that technology was just for men. Given our history, this is actually a ridiculous ideology because the first programmer ever was a woman. A mathematician, Ada Lovelace created a programming code in the 1800s, and paved the way for computers today. In the 1900s, Hedy Lamarr, who doubled as an actress and inventor developed the technology that runs our GPS, Bluetooth Wi-Fi, as we know them now. There are a host of other incredible women in history who has been in the IT field yet a gender gap exists and women still think that sciences are solely for men. These limiting beliefs have cost us and have caused women to be excluded from innovations. As a result, many inventions that have been created haven’t been produced with women in mind. For example, when artifi
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