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okaawhatever

(9,462 posts) Sat May 23, 2015, 02:42 PM May 2015

Powerful #GirlsWithToys Campaign Proves Once And For All That Women Have A Place In STEM

Here's yet another reminder that women totally kick ass in any field they want.

Shrinivas Kulkarni, astronomy and planetary science professor at the California Institute of Technology, was featured in an interview with NPR on Saturday. While speaking on astronomers, the professor said, "many scientists ... are what I call 'boys with toys.' I really like playing around with telescopes. It's just not fashionable to admit it."

The comment, which failed to acknowledge his female counterparts in the field, didn't go unnoticed. Women took to the Internet to remind Kulkarni that "boys" aren't the only ones in STEM. Using the #girlswithtoys hashtag, female scientists and engineers shared pictures of themselves or others with tools and equipment.

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The #girlswithtoys campaign is stunning, powerful and will make you want to bust out the Bunsen burner.
MORE PICS AT THE LINK

There are more pics at #GirlswithToys on Twitter. Very inspiring

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Powerful #GirlsWithToys Campaign Proves Once And For All That Women Have A Place In STEM (Original Post) okaawhatever May 2015 OP

There is a documentary on the search for the Higs Bosen Particle RandySF May 2015 #1

I've often wondered how much further along humanity would be... Mister Ed May 2015 #2

RandySF

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1. There is a documentary on the search for the Higs Bosen Particle

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 02:45 PM

May 2015

And one of the experiment leaders happened to be female.

Mister Ed

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2. I've often wondered how much further along humanity would be...

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Sun May 24, 2015, 08:28 AM

May 2015

...if the female Galileo, the female Newton, or the female Copernicus had not been suppressed. They surely must have lived at some time, in some place.

When I was in high school, my Biology teacher once told us of a girl who'd lived in his hometown on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota in the 1930's. Her IQ test scores exceeded those of Einstein, but after she finished high school, she simply married, and lived out her life as a traditional housewife.

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