Today is Ada Lovelace Day. As such, I've been thinking about any women mathematicians/engineers/scientists who inspired me early on -- and I'm coming up with nothing. My female math teachers were mostly uninspiring. And in college I had just one - a Statistics professor - who struggled to deal with the students in our class (300-level) who just didn't belong there (and asked questions like, "what's the difference between a mean and a median?").
However, now, I work with a bunch of amazing women programmers, statisticians, economists and researchers. There's no shortage of inspiration there. In fact, we celebrate often that - for one project - the entire programming team is made up of women. Woo!
I can only hope that my own children come into contact with a wide variety - male and female - of role models. There's a fair amount of assuming that goes on at our school - that Dads work and Moms stay home - but I try and counter that when I can.
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