User:Catbird2023/African women in engineering

African women in engineering
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★Challenges faced and lack of representation in this field

African women in engineering and STEM related fields are more susceptible to discrimination and to be devalued in African countries.

Northern Africa
(adding to document) ★Akissa Bahri (Tunisian agricultural engineer / previous prof at the National Agricultural Institute of Tunisia

In Tunisia she has conducted research on irrigation systems and degradation of soil resources. She came up with solutions to provide farmers and rural development offices with methodologies for monitoring soil.

Southern Africa
Donna Auguste is an African entrepreneur, philanthropist, and computer scientist. She was the founder of Freshwater Software in 1996, a company that provided tools that help them enhance their presence on the Internet (citation). She was the CEO of the company until she sold Freshwater in 2000. She studied at University of California at Berkeley and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science. She became the first African American woman in the PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University. Auguste has a background in computer science has many technologies related careers, as well as philanthropic. She founded Leave a Little Room foundation, which provides housing, electricity, and vaccinations to low-income families around the world(citation).

Organizations
Heightening The Participation Of African Women In Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Career Paths | AUDA-NEPAD

Bibliography (ANNOTATED)
Babalola, O. O., du Plessis, Y., & Babalola, S. S. (2021). Insight into the Organizational Culture and Challenges Faced by Women STEM Leaders in Africa. Social Sciences, 10(3), 105. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10030105

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This Journal is useful to my research and editing this Wikipedia article because they address the challenges Women STEM leaders in Africa face. This study shows gender imbalances and especially in STEM/engineering related programs in Africa. Women experience less acceptance than males in STEM leadership due to the organizational culture devaluing women in African countries.

Donna Auguste | National Center for Women & Information Technology. (2021, April 16). Web.archive.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20210416172033/https://www.ncwit.org/profile/donna-auguste

This article is useful for me to complete this project because it gives me information about Donna Auguste. Donna Auguste founded Freshwater Software, Inc. in 1996 and contributed to tools that make the internet what it is today. She was the CEO of Freshwater until she sold it in 2000 for $147 million. She went on to finding Leave a Little Room Foundation ( a philanthropic organizaton that helps provide housing, electricity, and vaccinations to low-income families). This article also talks about her interest in engineering as a young girl and her attending University of California at Berkley and the trials and tribulations of being an African Woman in Engineering.

Fethi Bouksila, Bahri, A., Berndtsson, R., Persson, M., Rozema, J., & van. (2013). Assessment of soil salinization risks under irrigation with brackish water in semiarid Tunisia. 92, 176–185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.06.002

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Along with the many achievements of Akissa Bahri, she was involved in a soil restoration project, and I think this would be useful to add to this Wikipedia article. I think it is interesting to add to the wiki article.

Heightening The Participation Of African Women In Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Career Paths | AUDA-NEPAD. (n.d.). Www.nepad.org. Retrieved November 19, 2023, from https://www.nepad.org/blog/heightening-participation-of-african-women-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics

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This source is useful in my research because it is an organization that I can add under the organization tab of this Wiki Article. The New Partnership for Africa's Development is NEPAD, and it was established in 2001 as the AU's strategic framework for socioeconomic development in Africa.