She is Nelly Cheboi, a stunning CNN Hero of the Year 2022 who resigned her software engineering job in the United States to build computer laboratories for poor rural schoolchildren in Africa. She is the Founder and CEO of TechLit Africa, an organization that creates computer laboratories in rural classrooms using refurbished computers and now[…]
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[…]
Victim blaming is very detrimental to the sanity of Sexual Harassment survivors. This has made a lot of young women hide cases of harassment because of the reactions they would get when they speak up. From our research on Addressing Gender Barriers against Young Women’s Career Development in Nasarawa State. This project is supported by[…]
When we engaged 200 men in 2022 to find out the knowledge gap on career barriers against young women in the workplace from the men’s perspective, some things came to our realization. These figures say a lot and beyond saying a lot, so much needs to be done to put an end to this peril.[…]
We kickstarted a project in May with the support of the Nigerian Women Trust Fund to check the: PREVALENCE AND DIMENSIONS OF GENDER-BASED BARRIERS MILITATING AGAINST YOUNG WOMEN’S CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN NASARAWA STATE. After the first phase, a validation meeting was held on the 17th of August 2023 and our researcher, Dr. Obianuju Nnadozie expounded[…]
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.
We tend to focus on women when we talk about sexual harassment and career barriers while men are being left behind. Based on the findings from HEIR Women Hub’s self-sponsored survey last year, we discovered that over 70% of the men we interviewed haven’t heard of any law that checks mates’ sexual harassment against women[…]
The Communications Officer of HEIR Women Hub, Blessing Sani traveled to Lafia Nasarawa State on the 5th of July 2023 for a spot check on our Enumerator (Hannatu Bala) in Lafia, Nasarawa State for the project titled; Addressing Gender Barriers against Young Women’s Career Development in Nasarawa State. This project is being carried out by[…]
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[…]
CHANGE YOUR STYLE Dear Woman, July will be like every other month if you do nothing differently. People who achieve much weren’t lucky, they worked it out. Say to yourself; “I will do better and while at it, I will record better results.” It is said that it is an unwise person that keeps doing[…]