Through the Eyes of a Woman

Make a list of famous scientist through out history....

1) Albert Einstein
2) Isaac Newton
3) Charles Darwin
4) Galileo Galile
5) Thomas Edison
6) Benjamin Franklin
What do these scientist have in common?

They are all males!
Can you name one female who was a scientist?
I couldn't, so I googled it.

1) Marie Curie
2) Rosalind Franklin
3) Lise Meitner
4) Ada Lovelace
5) Barbara McClintock

All of these women have impact the world of science. We often forget or never learn of these historical figures. In class today we all were asked to draw a scientist. Not surprisingly most of our drawing were of men with crazy hair and big glasses. After looking at everyone's drawing we all discussed the similarities between the drawings and pointed out the stereotypes associated with the profession. It was very interesting that even though most of the class is women, most of us all drew men.

 

I used this video in a past project to display the negative connotation that "like a girl" has and the activity that we did reminded me a lot of this video and the stereotypes of "only man occupations".