| Hubertine Rose Éholie | |
| Birth Name: | Hubertine Rose Traoré |
| Birth Date: | 23 May 1934 |
| Birth Place: | French Ivory Coast (present-day Burkina Faso) |
| Death Place: | Ivory Coast |
| Education: | University of Poitiers |
| Discipline: | Chemistry |
| Workplaces: | University of Abidjan |
Hubertine Rose Éholie (23 May 1934 - 11 May 2019)[1] was an Ivorian academic. Specialising in chemistry, she had a long career at the University of Abidjan. She retired by 2015 and was a critic of the gender gap of women in academia.
Hubertine Rose Éholie was born in Burkina Faso, then part of the French colony of Ivory Coast, on 23 May 1934.[2] She studied at the University of Poitiers and was awarded a higher education certificate in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry in 1957 and a certificate of specialised studies in metallurgy, chemistry and physics in 1960.[3] Éholie was awarded Doctor of Engineering Science degree in 1966 and a State Doctorate in 1971 by the University of Abidjan.
Éholie taught at the before a long career at the University of Abidjan. She began as a teaching assistant before becoming an assistant lecturer and lecturer in the Faculty of the Sciences. She became a senior lecturer, professor and then tenured professor Faculty of Sciences and Techniques. Her specialisms were in crystallography, electro-magnetics, glasses, the silver-arsenic-selenium system, semi-conductors and ternary compounds. She was elected a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (now known as The World Academy of Sciences, TWAS), Sub-Saharan Africa Region in 1987 and was one of only 88 fellows elected from that region (as of 2017).[4] She had retired by 2015.[5]
She wrote an article in 1988 for a Canadian International Development Agency and the Third World Academy of Sciences conference entitled "The role of women in the scientific and technological development of the third world: the case of Cote d'Ivoire".[6] She was a critic of the gender gap of women in academia in the Ivory Coast, particularly in the sciences.[5]