… we need it to stand on this earth.
This is one of the most powerful YouTube clips ever. Even before Nina came into my world I longed for more strong women, actually I married one :-)
For example in my computer science class it would have been great to have parity. We were actually happy to have 20% women, that was better than most of the other engineer classes.I checked and they now have Girl’s Day in Germany where they bring young women to technical universities to show them how much fun science and technology can be, to take away their fear.
On the other hand there should also be parity in occupations like nursing. The thing is, that often such jobs don’t pay enough to feed a family. If you have read Joe Quirk’s very funny book about Sperms and Eggs you get a science perspective on the differences.If I am not mistaken teaching used to be the third highest ranked profession after university professor and medical doctor. This was in Germany, where teachers still are respected more than here in the US. Still the status went down in proportion to the rise of the percentage of female teachers, which is now over 50%. This is just very sad and we have a lot of work ahead of us to turn the tide.
[via Christina Wodtke]