Naadiya Moosajee

Naadiya Moosajee

“I am a female engineer,” Naadiya says. “When I introduce myself, I still get gasps or looks of surprise. This isn’t a surprise to me as women account for just 11% of employees in architecture and engineering globally.” Naadiya sought to remedy this imbalance by launching Women in Engineering (WomEng), a social enterprise that seeks …

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Harnessing the Momentum of #MeToo

For Naadiya Moosajee, white male privilege is the cause of #MeToo — but it may also be the solution. "When [men] start to open the doors," Naadiya says. "Things change… I'm now teaching white men how is it that they can use their white privilege to be able to start positive conversations and to be …

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One Small Step for Man, No Giant Leaps for Women

Women should have made history on March 29. For the first time, two female astronauts were scheduled to do a spacewalk, making repairs to the International Space Station. But NASA didn’t have enough space suits that fit those two women, so they scrapped the mission.  Instead, Cristina Koch spacewalked with Nick Hague—and Anne McClain got …

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Fix AI’s Racist, Sexist Bias

Two years ago, my business partner and I were in need of gap financing while we waited for a client to pay us. We approached the main banks but, even with collateral and our education technology company’s healthy financial record, we were deemed too big a risk and turned down. Luckily, we had an angel …

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