Feminists

I worked with three other chemist (all female) and my immediate supervisor was also a woman. In the group, I was the least educated (I only have a bachelors degree while everyone else had a masters or better). Just because I was an ass, I used to try and remind my coworkers that chemistry was clearly “man” work and women didn’t belong in the field. To make my point, I’d try to name all of the great male chemists, realize all of those names were physicists, then cede that the only famous chemist anyone could name was Marie Curie.

I try to explain (mansplain) the same lessons to my daughters (11 and 13 years old) and they just tell me to shut up.

Incidentally, Marie Curie was the first person to win Nobel prize in two separate fields (chemistry and physics). Not just the first woman, but the first person to do so.

In all reality, the women in the science and engineering fields historically are better qualified and under paid relative to their male counterparts. I believe that is slowly changing, but there is still room for improvement.