I remember an ecology teacher at Cal telling us how amazed she was to see so many girls in her classes. During her time there were supposedly very few women professors in science & engineering. So I looked it up, and I guess it's true: six times more male S&E faculty in 1987. I know at least in my bio & ecology classes at Cal, I was mostly around Caucasian and Asian girls, so it's sort of cool to see how some things have progressed over our lifetimes. (Though I know there are still a bunch of depressing statistics out there that tell us otherwise, OF COURSE! I.e. only 17% of the US Congress is represented by women, a record high, what?!) Happy 100th International Women's Day!
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