According to per UN Women’s Gender Snapshot 2022 report, women’s exclusion from the digital world has shaved $1 trillion from the gross domestic product of low- and middle-income countries in the last decade—a loss that will grow to $1.5 trillion by 2025 without action. Inequality is costing us a lot of money. A lack of exposure to tech coupled with strongly gendered norms continues to keep girls out of the digital field from an early age. Additionally, many women suffer imposter syndrome and feel as though for one reason or another they are disqualified from anything good. In this episode we chat with Ms. Whitney Mwangi, the Founder of the Story Book Africa, about:
– What being a young African woman mean for her– How we can help the following girl-child generation to embrace innovation and technology to help push the DigitAll agenda– What she has had to unlearn about spaces that make women feel unwelcome or undeserving?and more…Enjoy 🙂
