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Women in Science: Time for Action (Talk for the Sciences and Development Association 31 March 2021)

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  Scientific Webinar 31 March 2021 Women in Science: An inspiration for Future Generation Organised by the Sciences and Development Association in partnership with Sultan MoulaySlimane University and the Higher School of Technology of Khenifra I have experienced academia and science as a student, as an assistant, a PhD student and nowadays, as a staff and a supervisor. I have worked with many male and female researchers and scientists particularly in the African continent but also beyond through my work in the Global Young Academy Women in Science WorkingGroup.  In this graph, I am considering the “Present” as the Covid era.  SO what happened in the past? What were the conditions?  Science was not a career option for young girls in the past…and that is not decades ago, it the very recent past, almost present. Everything started from girls never playing with science “toys” and dolls never being anything to do with science. Recently, I was looking at a toy brochure of a well-kn