Sexism Lives: Confessions of a Cook and Chemist
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When I saw burning Magnesium in my high school Chemistry class, I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. It burned with such a fierce, pure, white light that I felt as if I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. As the rest of my classmates shielded their eyes or stared off into space, I was captivated.
I’ve always been attracted to science, and loved my Biology and Ecology classes, but Chemistry was different. It was so dynamic: loud and messy. I started pursuing internships with the local university, and spent several summers identifying pill-bugs by gender and species, maintaining a colony of Asian earthworms, collecting local water samples to test for pollution, and measuring the effects of electricity and water on certain compounds. It didn’t surprise anyone who knew me when I went to college planning on getting a degree in Biochemistry. But the more I pursued Chemistry, the more I noticed how few other women there were in the lab and in my science classes. Of the eleven professors who taught Chemistry during my first year of college, only two were female. Of the seven labs I was in over the years, I only ever had a female partner once. All the labs I worked in outside of school were mostly male.
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http://emilyslist.org/blog/my_path_to_emilys_list/#
When I saw burning Magnesium in my high school Chemistry class, I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. It burned with such a fierce, pure, white light that I felt as if I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. As the rest of my classmates shielded their eyes or stared off into space, I was captivated.
I’ve always been attracted to science, and loved my Biology and Ecology classes, but Chemistry was different. It was so dynamic: loud and messy. I started pursuing internships with the local university, and spent several summers identifying pill-bugs by gender and species, maintaining a colony of Asian earthworms, collecting local water samples to test for pollution, and measuring the effects of electricity and water on certain compounds. It didn’t surprise anyone who knew me when I went to college planning on getting a degree in Biochemistry. But the more I pursued Chemistry, the more I noticed how few other women there were in the lab and in my science classes. Of the eleven professors who taught Chemistry during my first year of college, only two were female. Of the seven labs I was in over the years, I only ever had a female partner once. All the labs I worked in outside of school were mostly male.
read the rest of this story here:
http://emilyslist.org/blog/my_path_to_emilys_list/#
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