“Men have oodles of inspiring male engineers, mathematicians, scientists: Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong, Mark Twain, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Benjamin Franklin – the list goes on and on. Try and think of one popularized female scientist or engineer. I bet you can’t.”

Source: Hannah Jannol, Femsplain

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Women make up 47% of the U.S. workforce but make up dismal percentages in STEM fields:

16% of chemical engineers are women
12% of civil engineers are women
7% of mechanical engineers are women

Source: National Girls Collaborative Project and the National Science Foundation