 I'm Dr. Rosyudia Chavez. I am the Deputy Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute Africa Center, and I also lead the Energy and Climate Change Program. I joined SEI at the end of 2017, but I have been a researcher and academic for over 20 years. My name is Carol Mugo. I'm a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute Africa Center. I've been working in the research field for about five years. This is an area of energy and climate change. There are still many differences between male and female researchers. The form they are promoted, the interactions at work, the opportunities they receive, and this is not just in Africa. As a female researcher, it is as if you need to be proving yourself, but it doesn't happen most of the time with male colleagues. Some of the challenges that you experience going in the field as young female researchers is you really have to adjust to fit the community to accept you, to put the data, to interact. First, in focus group discussion, you have to adjust how you dress. You have to adjust how you contrast with people to be very respectable, which you have to go and examine with regards to this. There needs to be more done. This is particularly important for the formative level. More support during secondary and high school levels to interest women and girls to follow a career and to consider changes, for example, at the household level, for example, equal assignment of chores. My advice to young female researchers to personalize or put into perspective all these thematic areas because these are situations of factors that you face and experience as a young woman in growing up in the region when you look back at how the previous generation lived. There are so many thematic areas and research areas of interest that you can put in perspective. And the more you personalize it, the better it is.