One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
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I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.
I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.
I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.