内容摘要：This is not an African phenomenon, of course, but a global one.

This is not an African phenomenon, of course, but a global one.

It was a journey full of hardships - including selling water and yams at the roadside as a six-year-old.Dr Tabiri is trying to support other African girls and women from less privileged backgrounds to follow their maths dreams through her FemAfricMaths non-profit organisation.

Along with other volunteers, she gives lessons to the youngest high-school students in person and online.She also posts on social media interviews she does with leading female mathematicians from all over the world.Dr Tabiri is also hugely passionate about the potential of quantum science and technology - for which mathematics is essential.

She is proud that Ghana, backed by Mexico, spearheaded proposals that 2025 be declared the UN International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of modern quantum mechanics.Quantum mechanics emerged from studies to uncover how ultra-tiny particles - the most fundamental bits of matter, energy and light - interact with each other to make up the world.

It led to the development of the internet, solar cells, and global navigation satellite systems.

Researchers and big tech companies from across the world - including China, the US, the UK, Australia and South Africa - are now racing to develop quantum technologies, including quantum computers and ultra-precise measuring and sensor devices.The new pay offer, if approved by the council's employment committee, would come into effect on 1 June.

Some of the lowest paid council workerin waste and recycling, passenger transport, and IT were facing a pay cut, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).

The council had recently brought a number of adult social contracts in house bringing with it a low paid mainly female workforce.According to LDRS, the union suspected the pay cut was to avoid the threat of a costly equal pay claim.