Welcome back to Five Minutes, the podcast series where we speak to the most interesting people in the world of malaria.
Since the New York Times published a story detailing allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein in October of last year, there’s been a surge in feminism and the fight for equality.
There have been huge societal shifts, with the Me Too movement demanding female empowerment, not only in Hollywood on the big screen, but across a variety of careers. Such is true with STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
And joining me today are two female malaria researchers Elena Gomez in Spain and Joanne Powell in Scotland. They’ve created a website called women in malaria, it acts as a communications platform for women working in malaria research.
Live from Spain and Scotland, this is Five Minutes.
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