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> 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?
by 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