Here are my really angry thoughts towards a certain scenario that’s been pissing me off in the form of acronyms. Good fucking luck.
SAFCBOYB. WTFAYTOOWCST. YDKHTBA. FHATPOYTWTBWH.
The way we try to recruit girls into STEM fields is all wrong. We typically compare them to some great woman or someone that has gone before them. We are saying, “Hey, you can be like Madam Curie or Sally Ride.” It is recruiting by intimidation. We need to change that message. We need to recruit by appealing to WHY we need them in STEM. We NEED you to help make the world a better place We NEED you to help discover the cure for cancer. We NEED you because you have the ability to change the course of humanity for the better.
Tim Holt on why we still see the number of females in STEM fields fall way behind their male counterparts. Also see how geography paved the way for women in science.
It’s true the amount of popular female scientists and researchers is comparatively lacking - but having a solid role model shouldn’t be the only motivating factor in young girls pursuing STEM fields. A recent Smithsonian Magazine article revealed that 49% of female STEM college students say they chose their field because of a desire to make a difference, compared with34% of male STEM students, andthere arejust as many women are pursuing STEM fields as undergraduates - but once they graduated college, 73.2% of science and engineering jobs were held by men.
I did not pursue a STEM degree as an undergraduate because I did not think there was any room left for individual input, interpretation, or creative control. Obviously now I see how absolutely incorrect that thinking is, but what that has taught me is this: if high school graduates see these fields as stagnant and unappealing spoon-feedings of rudimentary knowledge, we desperately need to change how work in the field is presented. We need to emphasize the need for creativity and innovation. And I don’t think there’s any argument that young women aren’t fully capable of being able to do this, but we have to keep them in the workforce. The truth is, ladies, that your inclination to join the field in the hope that you can make a difference or even change the world is absolutely accurate. That is exactly the kind of motivating self-initiative that the world needs.
Smithsonian Magazine’s: Infographic: Where a STEM Education Can Take You
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He met Bill Murray.
Submitted by: Laura R.
Location: St. Andrew’s, Scotland
Men’s liberation
I am proud to be a male. First of all, call me a pussy that’s fine, just as long as it isn’t me that is carrying the baby in my stomach for nine months.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.George Orwell, 1984 (via velvetsands)
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I am seriously loving these photo-sets, they are breathtaking
that last shot is majestic as fuck
I’m never gonna catch my breathMe at work as conveyed by a song from Mulan
Say good-bye to those who knew me
Boy, was I a fool in school for cutting gym
This guy’s got ‘em scared to death
Hope he doesn’t see right through me
Now I really wish that I knew how to swim
