Women in STEM

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What's wrong with this picture?

What do you think is wrong with it?
They all appear to be white - it's kind of hard to say for sure from a screen photo. Is that it?

As an engineer I’ve never worn a white coat..

I'm intrigued. I'm also an engineer. I wore a white coat very occasionally in a previous job. Is the person on the ladder pointing a man?

Or a woman with short hair? No idea

Very lax health and safety practises on the ladders?

I don't think that it's a man stood on the ladder telling all the women underneath him what to do.......its a woman with short hair...... surely?

I don’t know. What do you think is wrong with it?

Fairly sure it's a man on top of the ladder...

I don't think it's a man.
But the women don't seem to be doing anything - except for the woman doing the admin.

Short hair = man

Too many lab coats, all white, no computers, and only the short-haired woman in trousers not wearing pink or purple? I like pink and purple but that seems like an unrepresentative sample wearing stereotypically 'feminine' colours with one token^ maybe slightly GNC woman, evidently being mistaken as a man because she's not wearing pink or purple and^ has short hair. The whole thing is too pink and purple tbh.

Women, whether in STEM or not, don't need colour coding.

Fairly sure it's a man on top of the ladder...

Errrr, why do you think that?

No, they are holding something pink so surely a woman.

Yep, women don't have short hair.
It is know.
I was at a STEM conference on Friday and two separate very senior women presented, both with short hair, I guess they must have been men.

It can't be a man because they're holding a pink folder.

Oh wait, I know what's wrong, they've got the men's blue microscope.

I have short hair, am I a man too?

If you’re afraid of heights STEM isn't for you?

Ladder climbing seems to be an essential.

Oh! Unless it’s a metaphor?

Honestly don't know why you think it's a man. Looks exactly the same as the other women except with short hair.

They're all white and they're all wearing lab coats.

I am 1/2 Indian and never wear a lab coat.

I used to have short hair, so I was a man, but now have long hair so am now a woman.

Still don't wear a lab coat though

The preponderance of pink is a bit sad.

Agree with the pink. My last set of size 4 steel toe caps came with pink laces... I was less than impressed!

Why is there so much pink and purple? I work in a STEM (ish) role and mostly wear black and the equipment and materials I use are all ‘normal’ colours (by which I mean not pinkified). I may occasionally use purple clipboards and pens but also blue, green, etc. That is a very irritating and patronising advert.

The woman with short hair is probably the only part that doesn’t annoy me!

Oh wait, got it - the microscope and pencil are disproportionately large.
I am guilty of wearing a white lab coat though from time to time...