A clear vision and good delegation skills can help women to advance in their careers.
Credit: Younoussa AbbosoukaAfrican women face all the same challenges that women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields face around the world — but with a substantial number of extra barriers to success as researchers stacked in front of them.
My mother was chronically ill when I was young, which motivated me to go to medical school at the University of Yaoundé I. In 2007, my last year, I won a US Fulbright scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in public health at Georgia State University in Atlanta. That experience provided many opportunities to meet people from around the world, establish relationships and strengthen my bilingualism.
When I was younger, I had a role model, Yaou Aïssatou, who was then the minister of women’s empowerment for Cameroon. She was from my region and she was also Muslim. During the school holidays, I would learn sewing and hairdressing because this was expected of women. I did it out of respect for my parents, but internally, I thought: “This is not for me.
Finding a good work–life balance is hard and, honestly, I’m not sure I’m doing it right. I have made sacrifices. I have cut off everything that is leisure and I work seven days per week. My first child, who is 14, stayed with my mother when I went to the United States, and my second child, who is 3, stays with my mother in my home town of Guider, a 1,200-kilometre drive from Yaoundé.
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