RMB Inaugural Gender Award Category Winner Announced
Dr Gladys Ngetich is the inaugural winner in the RMB’s Africa’s Fearless Thinker category at the 10th Accenture Gender Mainstreaming Awards (GMAs). RMB’s Africa’s Fearless Thinker award seeks to identify an individual who is recognised among for their ground-breaking, innovative thought leadership on tackling gender mainstreaming issues... Read more
Women in science: Smashing glass ceilings and glass walls
Things have changed a lot in 50 years, but not as fast as some had hoped. BBC News spoke to five scientists from different generations who are breaking barriers in their field. Read more...
Average KCPE scorer shoots to aerospace fame in UK
When Gladys boarded a plane on September 28 2015 to the United Kingdom, it was her second flight outside of Kenya. There is nothing special about flying but that flight acquires significance when her achievements in the four years she spent in the UK are put into perspective. Read more...
Nature | The jet engineer
I spend a lot of time with jet engines as part of my PhD, trying to improve them. This one is a Concorde engine — it’s a demonstration model that’s used to show where the various components of the engine are located, and it sits on the ground floor of the institute where I work. Read more...
Kenya's Top 40 Under 40 Women
"The Top 40 Under 40 list has also awarded high marks to women who have excelled in professions that have been and remain male dominated such as software engineering, actuarial science, aviation and engineering. This is because we believe there should be no gender-based glass ceiling on any dreams." Business Daily Africa. Read more...