We need to recognize that gender bias still exists in science.
A commentary by the head of school at St. Margaret’s School and a board member of CAIS, Canadian Accredited Independent Schools.
If those fields are more welcoming for all genders we could see positive outcomes for society and our economy. Recent findings by the World Economic Forum in their Global Gender Gap research report said “it will take 132 years to close the gender gap.” That’s a long time. Yet her role as a woman in science hero might not have happened if her Ph.D application hadn’t been mistaken for a mans’. She applied successfully to the University of Chicago in 1936 for her chosen field in science.
In the book Nerve: Lessons in leadership from two women who went first, one of the Canadian authors, Indira Samarasekera, talked about the value of her education at an all-girls school in Sri Lanka. She attributed her confidence and courage to pursue engineering and to see herself as a leader to her experience at that school.
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