Women in stem display

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At the Railway museum in York. Looking at a display about 'women in stem lacking visibility'. 5 women and one transwoman in the six biogs. Wasn't there a sixth woman in all of science, technology or maths in all of history?!

I'd need to know more about whether they were highlighting already relatively visible women in STEM or bringing the obscure to greater prominence.

I recognise several of those names because of awards/early death/saving Bletchley so it feels more like the former to me tho' I may be wrong.

AS Professor Lene Hau, who stopped the speed of light isn't there I would very much like to know what the TW has done that is so fucking impresssing?

They could have had Cecilia Payne on there too. Here are 2 great links about her.

m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215647596196137&id=1028550549&set=a.10215647596076134

www.worldsciencefestival.com/2011/05/cecilia_payne_gaposchkin/

sorry the second link was suppose to be this one. (it seems to go off on a tangent halfway through but keep scrolling and it comes back to Cecilia.)

www.famousscientists.org/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin/

Why the fuck have they put Maryam Mirzakani in a hijab? Yes, she was Iranian. But she lived and worked in the US and I have never seen a photo of her in a hijab

Maryam Mirzakani in a hijab?

Notionally, I'd like to have seen her clutching her Fields Medal, so to speak.

Sorry, just to explain - what's annoying me is the fact that the hijab in this case is illustrative of the fact that whoever put this together was only doing it for the lefty dude-bro woke points, not out of any genuine interest in the scientists/ mathematicians in question. It's as if they read her google entry, thought "cool, first woman Fields winner and she's from the Middle East, that'll look woke" and stuck her in a hijab just to bang home the diversity point because in their mind that's what all Middle Eastern women look like. It's both sexist and racist.

If Maryam had been a hijabi, that would have been fine - but she wasn't.

I was there yesterday. Didn't look closely at the display tbh, was more interested in the trains. But...they had various STEM things going on too - a music coding thing (male presenter) a science show for kiddies (male presenter) - a stand from a local uni with tech to try (two male representatives from the uni).

I was not there for long so I might be being unfair and maybe the representation was more even over the event - but I did notice that the female contingent were only there in poster form.

They've clearly had a tick-list — black, Asian, transgender and so on — and looked for women in stem to fit. Inclusivity strikes again.

Complain: I will. Presumably (I haven't been able to find out when s/he transitioned from a cursory google) all the early qualifications and experience were gained as a man in the days when female aero engineers were rarer than hen's teeth.

Sarah Guppy and her design of the pilings used in Telford's Menai Bridge and Brunel's Suspension Bridge: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/2650345-Woman-inventors-design-enabled-Brunel-and-Telford-to-build-their-iconic-bridges

And Emmy Noether and others...

Chien Shiung Wu (helicity of neutrino), Lise Meitner (theoretical basis of nuclear fission), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (discovery of pulsars) - just three of the women who should arguably have won the Nobel prize in a fairer world.

Amanda Simpson went to the most expensive private undergraduate college (university) in the US.
What's the bet that it was an expensive boys school before that?

I know a TIM in STEM IRL who claims to have had no male privilege before transitioning as he felt shy and unsure of himself. But went to a private boys school.

Male privilege is invisible from the inside.