Girls' school?

payn4ward
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 01:00:27 +0000

I believe that the reason I went fully into math and science (I took engineering classes for electives in college), got a PhD, and a science career is because I attended 6 years of girls school before college. No one told me what a girl cannot do or should do during that time. I thought feminism was history. Only in college, I started to feel I wasn’t supposed to be there. For one thing, there was no women’s bathroom in the engineering building. Things are different now (there are women’s bathrooms) but there are still traditional roles and (subconscious) prejudices that interfere with girls becoming all they can be. I’m all for girls school (if that artificial bubble helps overcome the cultural barrier to succeed and take leadership.)