I didn't understand all of your post but one thing jumps out at me. Yes, girls can be engineers. A few weeks ago when, as you know, I attended a STEM Ambassadors' social*, one of the presentations was by a pair of teachers extolling the STEM Club they run for school students. These teachers spoke about the tendency for STEM Club members to be boys. Then they said that they provided a STEMettes club for girls, and it's popular.
Being new to the STEM Ambassadors' Programme I wasn't ready to challenge these teachers but I hope there'll be another chance to do that. STEMettes? Eh? Sounds like a girl group singing 1960s pop music. Why not STEM Girls or Girls Got STEM? I hope for chance to extoll Grandma got STEM https://ggstem.wordpress.com/ and to invite people to think about the backlash against Science: It's a Girl Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA
* For anybody reading your blog who doesn't know this: STEM Ambassadors are volunteers whose role is to inspire young people towards science, technology, engineering and maths.
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Date: 2015-01-04 06:00 pm (UTC)Being new to the STEM Ambassadors' Programme I wasn't ready to challenge these teachers but I hope there'll be another chance to do that. STEMettes? Eh? Sounds like a girl group singing 1960s pop music. Why not STEM Girls or Girls Got STEM? I hope for chance to extoll Grandma got STEM https://ggstem.wordpress.com/ and to invite people to think about the backlash against Science: It's a Girl Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA
* For anybody reading your blog who doesn't know this: STEM Ambassadors are volunteers whose role is to inspire young people towards science, technology, engineering and maths.