Women and STEM

Anna Holmes, columnist for the Washington Post, discusses the difficulties facing women and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  Her argument is that it starts young:  “Although girls have achieved meaningful parity with boys in test scores and college degrees in math and science, they are also being sent a message that embracing these subjects is anathema to what it means to be female. (Mainstream Hollywood movies about technology innovation that relegate females to sexualized-accessory status don’t help matters. Neither do sexist comments from Ivy League university presidents or pink T-shirts for ’tweens with phrases such as “Allergic to Algebra.”) Read the full story here.