TV presenter Shini Somara talks to sisters Abigail and Donna Otchere, who founded the SiSTEM network for STEM women to support and encourage one another. What has it been like being women of colour in STEM? Donna: There are very few of us in engineering. I was one of two girls in my physics class and perhaps five people in my undergraduate degree who were from BAME backgrounds. I have always been driven by my love of maths and creativity, and engineering has always really interested me, so it was an obvious choice of career for me. Not relating to others, however, has made things harder, but if I don't speak up for minorities in STEM this problem continues.
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