Saturday, June 23, 2012

Science it's a girl thing

  • Whats the deal with women and STEM? Though women fill close to half the jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Ladies: they love stilettos, lipstick and the color pink. Oh, and now they like science, too.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • This morning the interwebz have been all a flutter with the release of a 'teaser' video from the European Commission of Research and Innovation.
  • (Scientific American)
  • With a kitschy new video, the European Commission hopes to assure girls in Europe that scientific professions are feminine and fun. But while the message might have been admirable, some are cringing at the execution.
  • (Washington Post)
  • (Updated: Mid-afternoon June 22, US time, the video was "made private by uploader" on YouTube, making both video and many derisive comments by women inaccessible.
  • (Wired News)
  • Something that you might have been able to gather from recent news pieces is that the economy of the continent of Europe is falling apart.
  • (Forbes)
  • Why do male researchers outnumber female researchers? Its because the lab coats just arent cute enough, a new European advertisement seems to be suggesting.
  • (GlobalPost)
  • The teaser video, Science: It's a girl thing! is pegged to a European Commission campaign to bring more women into the field, which skews heavily toward men.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Three women march towards the camera, immaculate in high heels and mini dresses. They pause to smoulder in an end-of-the-catwalk way at a man in a lab coat, who looks up from his microscope (startled? In awe?) at these confident young minxes.
  • (New Statesman)
  • The film, published by the European Commission, describes science as a girl thing, and combines generic pictures of beakers and words like hydrogen with pictures of skinny models wearing designer sunglasses.
  • (Daily Telegraph)

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