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May 9, 2011 by Tien Chiu

An XKCD worth reading

To all female scientists: this one’s for you.

http://xkcd.com/896/

 

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  1. BlueLoom says

    May 11, 2011 at 5:26 am

    I’m neither a scientist nor a scientist wannabe, but thank you for posting this. When I took physics in high school, there were only two girls in my class of about 30-35 students. Guidance counselors tried to discourage girls from taking physics, calculus, and trig, b/c “girls just don’t take those classes.” I struggled mightily in that freakin’ physics class (b/c my mind doesn’t work in pulleys & inclined planes), but I felt that I had stood up for the concept that girls can take any damn class they want.

    For the record, I graduated from HS in 1955. Things really have changed.

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