Day 46: women in science

Read a newspaper or something online and it will tell you that there is not enough women in science. That girls can become disengaged with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects at a young age, possibly from an old societal opinion that STEM is a male subject, and don't follow careers in science. I'm really eager to be involved in public engagement and encouraging children to get into science. 

In the lab, there is about a 50:50 split male to female across all the students, post-docs and technicians. Although there is only one female PI (principal investigator - the lead person for a research group), from my perspective there is no prejudice or inequality between the genders - so much so that I hadn't even thought about it until today - when the only people in the lab were 6 female scientists and myself! 

 And this felt even more poignant today - to feel like an equal scientist to anyone else in the room and feel like I could go anywhere in my career - when tonight I watched Hidden Figures, with 6 beautiful women, all hard-working scientists that I've had the privilege to get to know over this time. Hidden Figures is an amazing film all about 3 women who stand up to inequality with confidence and pride in their ability and worth to work as mathematicians and engineers at NASA. The film was spot on and I would recommend anyone to go and see it! 



*also second Tuesday night out in a row... is Tuesday is becoming the new Friday!? 😜😉 

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