Chronova-Engineering t1_iu6bven wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:49 PM

Reply to comment by Shruberytheshrublock in Some female inventors and their contributions to science and space exploration. My niece is interested in space and told me that only boys can be scientists. Don't know where she got that idea, but I made this for her. by Shruberytheshrublock

I really appreciate things like this. I’ve been to too many events or lectures about historical engineering - especially for aerospace - only to have a male speaker spend the entire talk referring to “the amazing blokes/guys/men” who worked on certain innovations. It might be true that their colleagues were all male back then but it’s really gutting when they don’t even try to make the female aspiring engineers in the audience feel included.

Shruberytheshrublock OP t1_iu6c9ys wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:52 PM

Absolutely! I can only imagine how frustrating that would be. Especially for young women and girls, it would only be discouraging.