September 1st, 2016
Bet jums taču ir visas iespējas!
"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/mode
