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First woman Physics Nobel winner in 55 years
- okket 8y agoAs long as headlines start with a nameless woman instead of her name, Donna Strickland, it is still a long way for woman in STEM/Physics. Why not "Donna Strickland becomes third woman to receive Nobel Prize in Physics since Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903)" or similar (maybe a bit shorter)?
- Kazooie_Bird 8y agoBecause then many wouldn't read the article.. HOOKS are called that just for this reason......
- sonabinu 8y agoWish an establishment like the bbc chose better
- another-cuppa 8y ago> it is still a long way for woman in STEM/Physics. Do you know a single woman who wanted to go into STEM but couldn't because she was a woman?
- eigenstuff 8y agoDo you have any idea how many women who go into STEM ultimately leave due to harassment and discrimination? If the harassment I faced had happened early on in my physics degree rather than when I was almost done, I absolutely would have left. Because I can't learn if I'm living in fear that my harasser will walk into the room and trigger a panic attack, so what would the point be? I ultimately left my job in my school's tutorial center to get away from yet another student who was harassing me since nothing was done after I reported the first student except I was bullied and ostracized by my classmates. To my complete non-surprise, student #1 has gone on to harass another girl. It's not getting women in that's the struggle, it's not losing the few you have to the leaky pipeline.
- another-cuppa 8y agoThat stuff happens to men too, though.
- sonabinu 8y agoI thought computers were cool as a kid but stayed away for a long time because of how my computer class in school was full of boys. Later, I just stopped being worried about that and, went back to school for a masters degree in the field.
- another-cuppa 8y agoWhat's wrong with boys? That was your fault.
- sonabinu 8y agoNothing wrong with boys! Not enough girls. I felt very out of place
- qubax 8y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120433
- sonabinu 8y agoPosted at the same time ...