This week marks the Respectful Workplace week. A lot of things contribute to having a respective work environment in government, private, development, and informal workspaces. Over the years, gender biases in workspaces have been evident. HEIR Women Hub has had several research projects that have shown in recent times that the biases against young women[…]
This is brought to you by HEIR Women Hub and Implemented by the Nigerian Youth Futures Fund and LEAP Africa with support from the MacArthur Foundation and Ford Foundation.
A picture extract of the Programme Officer for HEIR Women Hub Blessing Ejeh during an On-spot check to assess the progress of the research and assessment exercise component of the ongoing project in Keffi Local Governement of Nasarawa State supported by the Nigerian Women Trust Fund.
The reoccurrence of harassment can not be overemphasized. Regularly, young women encounter a series of harassment in different climes and just a little is done about it. Most of the time, young women who face harassment are being asked to keep quiet and do nothing about it. They make women feel normalcy in such acts[…]
HEIR Women Hub hosted a Peer to peer virtual session on Leadership and Civic Knowledge Enhancement for Young Women in the FCT. This project began in January with a training conference held on the 25th of January and a public sensitization on the 27th of January. This was made possible by Nigeria Youth Futures Fund[…]
For some decades now, women have been actively involved in politics although when compared to the participation of men, the turnout of women becomes poor. women globally form about 50% of the world’s population but this hasn’t influenced women’s political representation. Bringing it back to Nigeria, we have a very low turn of women in[…]
The Executive Director of HEIR Women Hub, Añuli Aniebo Ola-Olaniyi has made a lot of input when it comes to Gender matters. She was featured on the Allure cover of the Vanguard newspaper just yesterday the 18th of September, 2022. A lot was revealed in her interview and one striking part was when she spoke[…]
Of recent young women and girls have been making tremendous fits. Shaking the mainstream and breaking global records has become the new normal for young women globally. It is no longer news that young women are no longer on the disadvantaged scale. Nature and all that is in it are in the favour of young[…]
Human beings are social creatures therefore we do not exist in isolation. Daily we interact and seek the opinion of others directly or indirectly. Validation refers to seeking approval or opinion from others on a particular idea or when taking a decision. At some point in our lives, we have sort for this. For instance,[…]
Effective communication according to Ricky W. Griffin is the process of sending a message in such a way that the message received is as close in meaning as possible to the message intended. Career advancement largely depends on how effective an individual can communicate and this is true of the progress of the organization[…]