How The Matilda Effect Removes Women in STEM From History - Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show

As a woman scientist who was married to a male scientist, women are VERY discriminated against in the sciences. Men are pushed/pulled forward into management and women are leveled out to do the grunt work. Doesn't matter if you work longer hours, work smarter, multi-task, are a better scientist... still the men will be given more opportunity, higher raises, more voice and face-time etc. There's no rational explanation at this point other than sexist discrimination.

As a male in my 60s I always assume that (all things being equal) any given female in the sciences is probably better, smarter, harder working, or more dedicated than her random male counterpart simply due to all the extra barriers she has had to overcome to get where she is. Since realizing this about 30 years ago I have always chosen female doctors and dentists for myself and my family. Luckily I live in an area with an abundance of female medical professionals- most from Ivy League schools.

My wife is a V.P. of Software Engineering. In college (back in the early 1980s) she was always the only female in the class. Now both my daughters have science degrees. Me- I'm just a visual artist.

The female mad scientist was hilarious. And having Sara Silverman was perfect.

I had a friend who really wanted to study marine biology but her mom told her she shouldn’t because “her husband might not get a job near the ocean.” That one irked me quite a bit. I try to instill in all my students a love of science, but I only teach at the middle school level and even if they love science, there’s so many hurdles the girls will face on that journey between now and then.

Knowledge has crawled slowly forward because of the exclusion of women and people of color.

Wilhelmina Fleming, a human computer who helped develop an organized way to categorize stars.

As a female electrical engineer who graduated in the 80sit was hard and you had to be strong and focused. I noticed women being silently pushed out. Offered jobs in day tech marketing. We were told women had opportunities but not if they wanted to stay technical.

My Czech grandmother was a pediatrician all her life. When I went to the Charles University in Prague to see her records, they told me that women weren’t even accepted as medical students until relatively recently. I just stood there like a dumb American until the registrar heaved a big sigh and brought me the records from, I think it was 1919. Oops, not only was my grandmother on the rolls, but about 1/3 of the other students were also female.

I don't work in STEM, but I work in an easily, historically male dominated field. When I come across another female that isn't a HR professional, I feel like I found another member of my tribe lol