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Bet jums taču ir visas iespējas!

September 1st, 2016 (12:17 pm)

"Because as a girl I was not expected to make it in physics. It’s only a matter of time before I come to my senses and quit.
My looks are not compatible with physics. My hormones are not compatible with physics. My OBLIGATION to have a family and make babies is not compatible with physics. My gender is not compatible with physics.
So if you could do something else for a living other than physics, don’t you want to pursue that instead?
You are a girl! And physics is so hard."

"But if you’ve been told the entire time that at some point sooner or later, your female brain will become too dumb for physics, what’s the point of continuing to try when the hurdle hits? How are you supposed to tell, especially at a younger age, whether it is only a hurdle, or some insurmountable barrier of nature?
When you are being rooted for failure by the ones closest to you who are supposed to cheer you on, and finally give you an implicit or explicit “I told you so” when you finally exit the race, do we really have to wonder why so many girls leave STEM, why so many girls do not enter STEM in the first place?
There are girls not born because they are girls.
There are girls not going to school because they are girls.
There are girls not becoming physicists because they are girls."

https://medium.com/@Yangyang_Cheng/model-physicist-5669253d87f6#.2eiz2q92m

Comments

Posted by: cukursēne ([info]saccharomyces)
Posted at: September 1st, 2016, 12:36 pm

jā, es arī izlasīju darbiņā. tajā "have you considered modelling?" momentā teju vai jutos tā, ka vajadzētu iet kaut kur iet aiz dusmām sist logus.

Posted by: vakardienas ([info]vakardiena)
Posted at: September 1st, 2016, 12:56 pm

es iedomājos tās situācijas, un tad man gribējās plosīties par visiem tiem, kas saka- bet visiem taču vienādas iespējas. Ej nu tiec cauri tai milzu atrunāšanai un izskata, laulību, bērnu slavināšanai, dzīves mērķu kontekstā.

Posted by: cukursēne ([info]saccharomyces)
Posted at: September 1st, 2016, 02:54 pm

jā, man šķiet, ka cilvēki, kuri norāda uz to, ka likumdošana iespējas neierobežo utt, vienkārši negrib sadzirdēt visus tos neredzamos "bet", kas ir piekabināti galā visādiem "sieviete var būt/darīt x"

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