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jeremy-o t1_iu69ceh wrote

You're an awesome uncle. Sometimes it's scary how bad ideas about gender creep in through media, but being proactive helps. Thanks for sharing!

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Shruberytheshrublock OP t1_iu69qxv wrote

Thanks! I completely agree. Nobody should be discouraged about learning about science!

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SuppiluliumaX t1_iu69r5x wrote

Nice work! You could put in Katherine Johnson too, who contributed massively to the Apollo space program by calculating trajectories for moon voyages

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LaunchTransient t1_iu6a5bf wrote

There's so many. The calculator departments alone could fill rafts of phonebooks.
Fortunately there's a wake up going on where these historical figures are now being recognised for what they did, but sadly we can't get them all (in the sense that many were never recognised for their achievements or they were coopted by a male coworker).

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Mighty-Lobster t1_iu69tts wrote

Tell her that the two upcoming big telescopes are both named after women scientists:

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Chronova-Engineering t1_iu6a3gk wrote

Female scientist here - thank you for reminding your niece and the world that we exist and have always existed!

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Shruberytheshrublock OP t1_iu6apu5 wrote

I appreciate that a lot! And thank you for doing what you do.

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Chronova-Engineering t1_iu6bven wrote

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.

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Shruberytheshrublock OP t1_iu6c9ys wrote

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

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BisquitTheClown t1_iu69nmc wrote

If it wasn't for women we would have never landed on the moon

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Jcampbell1796 t1_iu6abr2 wrote

It’s Hedley Lamarr. Sorry couldn’t resist. Nice work!!

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Freespirit2023 t1_iu6bud7 wrote

You tell that young lady that she can be anything she wants! She could be a pioneer of Mars in the not too distant future...

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sqwishedsqwrl t1_iu6lm0x wrote

All these commenters in denial 😣 … Girls get that idea from boys who want to be scientists! My daughter was studying nanotechnology, the only woman in her classes, and told me horrific stories about the toxic environment that young men created there. Misogyny is alive and well, we’re not fucking post-THAT at all.

Edit to add there’s a whole documentary about misogyny in science on Netflix, called Picture a Scientist, check it out.

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Erinmore t1_iu6ca1k wrote

But that's all olden days.

You should create another one with some current "girl" scientists. And along with the cartoon and blurb, you can include links to channels where your niece can interact with the real people.

Maybe have a Dr. Becky video on while you research who else to add.

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npcomp42 t1_iu6cemu wrote

I'm having a hard time believing your claim that your niece said such a thing, given the prominence of female geniuses and scientists in the entertainment media. Black Panther, Black Adam, Jurassic Park, Contact, Avatar, Lost World, I Robot, Foundation, Thor, Interstellar, Prometheus, Gravity, and many, many more.

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denisrennes t1_iu6e3td wrote

The Ada programming language was named after Ada Lovelace. Her first name is Ada. She wrote the first computer program, when the computer existed only in theory.

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jeremy-o t1_iu6951v wrote

That's disgusting and inappropriate. How do you get any sense it's ok to make that comment?

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