Women’s Entrepreneurs Day

السلام عليكم,

Hey guys, so today is the Women’s entrepreneurs day and I wanted to share something with you. As a fresh graduate programmer analyst, I participated to a competition lanch by Microsoft called the Cloud Startup Academy (CSA).

We were 44 girls selected in the final day. It’s a program which aims to help African women to lanch their own IT startup based on the Cloud (Microsoft’s one .. of course) 

Here s some of us with the USA ambassador D. Bush (I’m the one in left in the last row)

Final Pitch Day CSA

They oblige us to wear a white shirt and black pants ( gladly the waitresses wear differently that day, they were actually more fashionnable)

What’s great about this experience is that they give us macarons for free !! :D  

(I really wasn’t kidding :D )

More seriously, I think it’s great that programs like that enhance women entrepreneurship but I really do think it’s still sexist. I do think a job is good for someone who does it good ! Some women are amazing ! They re smart and talented, others are dumb ! (Sorry.. reality..) but this isnt sexist or insulting !! Why ? Cause guys are dumb too ! It’s not about the gender but the degree of stupidity ! When we talk about how women should be more envolved on this men’s world, I feel manipulated. Because, generally it’s men who take our defense ! As it always pleases me to say a lioness is not a lion ! Why to compare ? 

But as I said, macarons were yummy… and Happy Women’s Entrepreneurs Day ! 

I let you know how things are going inchaAllah ;) Stay tuned ! 

PS : For those of you who don't know it, today Marrakech will host the GES (The Global Entrepreneurship Summit) more informations will be found here