Being responsible is more important than fighting. It's more enduring. - Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi

If you don't engage with people properly, you run the risk of being kidnapped. First I meet the community chief, the women's leader, the youth leaders.

Evidence has shown that women have the capacity to excel in any field of research provided they have adequate training, enabling environment, and interest.

Some professional colleagues have shoved aside some of my position papers because they come from a ‘women’. We, as women scientists, often get a ‘second-citizen role’ in science events, activities, and jobs. When people push for a quota for a woman among invited speakers for example, I feel terrible as it is a conscious bias.