The United Nations on Thursday showcased diverse technological improvements with the aid of using younger ladies and men that superior gender equality and ladies’ empowerment in Nigeria.
UN Women Country Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms. Beatrice Eyong, stated the occasion changed into a part of sports to mark International Women’s month, with a theme, ‘DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality’, in Abuja.
Eyong referred to the extensive gender hole in employment and schooling withinside the technological quarter in Nigeria, with ladies making up the simplest 22 lines with cent of the full engineering and era college graduates annually.
“This is because of gender stereotypes and social norms that also class jobs in those sectors as ‘men’s jobs’, which inhibits ladies from making use of to examine and reveal hobbies in such subjects.
“It additionally prevents corporations from hiring certified ladies for those roles.”
According to her, the exhibit could reveal younger ladies and men in Nigeria’s virtual and revolutionary answers to a number of problems throughout some of the sectors withinside the society.
Also speaking, the Director General of the National Information and Technology Development Agency, Mr. Kashifu Inuwa, stated the corporation, via its numerous regulations and strategies, had educated over 200,000 younger human beings on ICT to bridge the gender divide.
“We educated no fewer than 222,000 younger human beings in ICT and we consider that we've got a developing population, colorful entrepreneurial and increasing tech eco-system, which if we leverage can offer a possibility for us to acquire gender equality and ladies empowerment.”
Similarly, the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, burdened the want for ladies and younger ladies to leverage technological improvements to enhance their lives and bridge the gender disparity in all sectors.
Tallen represented with the aid of using the Director, of Women Development, Mrs. Funke Oladipo, additionally highlighted the want to empower ladies and ladies on virtual skills, get entry to era, and aid ladies-led businesses.
Also, the Country Manager, of Microsoft Nigeria, Mrs. Ola Williams, stated the corporation had partnered with the Federal Government to ability 5 million youths via the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy to enhance technological improvements.
Williams stated those could enhance get entry to jobs, proper gear, and resources, in addition to markets for his or her business.
“Because the sector has grown to be a worldwide village, any era evolved these days can absolutely be accessed with the aid of using everyone withinside the world.
“So this is why past simply offering skilling mentoring, we also are offering manner to employability,” she stated.
Other highlights of the activities consist of an exhibition of technological improvements with the aid of using younger ladies and men on gender problems, tech-apps, among others.
A felony practitioner and a listening to-an-impaired person, Ms. Edeh Catherine-Chinyere, evolved an app, ‘Voice of Disability Initiative’, an audio translator app that covers audio to textual content for people with listening to impairment.
Also, Ms. Fatima Haliru-Yahaya’s ‘Honor of Haven’, an e-platform, changed into evolved to aid ladies and ladies in reporting incidents of sexual and gender primarily based totally violence.
Also, the UN ladies released an app, ‘Buy-from-ladies’ virtual platform to hyperlink ladies farmers and marketers to markets, statistics, and finance.
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