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Africa: women, where are thou?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007 @ 20:46 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Kenya, Tanzania
Topics:: Gender, Technology

Kenyan Pundit asks, “Women, where are thou?”: Several of my virtual and real buddies have received scholarships to attend TED Arusha. So far, all the receipients that I know are male…a trend similar to the Blogging Indaba last year… and I’m curious to know whether there are any women out there who’ve applied for/ received a scholarship to TED. Please leave a comment if so.

1 comment

Miriam

I do not think that women do not want to attend at all. I believe women like myself would want to attend, but family responsibility and timing could be another issue.

# 2007-04-9 at 6:55 am

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