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echnology not for her
When I was growing up, one of my half-brothers was not happy that my dad was spending money to send
be a waste since I was going to benefit my husband's family and not my dad. This kind of stereotypestas,
many women in my country are being left behind when it comes to education and opportunities for
Pursuing my Computer Science degree at a foreign university, I came into contact with a lot of female
computer hardware and software repairs, and had fun playing around with screwdrivers and wires
. Though
many of my friends and family back in South Sudan at first found it bizarre to see a young lady opening
and repairing computers
, when they saw what I could do, they encouraged me to share my experience
and knowledge with students and to inspire other young women to follow this traditionally male career
took their advice and soon applied for a teaching position in the College of Computer Science and
Information Technology at the University of Juba, where I became just the second female lecturer on
staff. In the classroom, 1 soon found that many students - but predominantly my female students – were
reluctant to contribute to class discussion. Many of them were taking the back seats in the classroom,
and their class performance and grades were not very strong. These students were often surprised to see
me leading the ICT courses because, to them, these subjects were more "masculine", and were not meant
for women. I knew I needed to change these girls' attitudes, but how was I going to do it without making
them lose interest, or become more intimidated than they already were?
Technology needs to be inclusive. We are now in an era where the world needs women to create new
path.
possibilities using technology. Many fragile countries in Africa, like South Sudan, still lag behind in this
area. African governments, especially in these fragile countries, have to support women to take up
technology-related careers, and have to help and support them to break mindsets that are holding them
back. The world is changing, and it is critical that women are able to change with it.
Eva Yayi Mawa is Co-Founder of the GoGirls-ICT Initiative and Lecturer at the University of Juba. She is
part of the Global Innovation Gathering, a diverse community of innovation hubs, makerspaces,
hackerspaces and other grassroot innovation community spaces and initiatives as well as individual
innovators, makers, technologists and changemakers.
been attached to many women across the globe - and especially in my country, South Sudan. As a result,
lecturers who were inspirational and good teachers. This exposure built my confidence to try out new​

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