Wednesday, August 12, 2015

August 12, 2015: women's Wednesday

I've heard it too many times: "You don't look like a professor!" And yes, I realize these comments may be intended to flatter, but this kind of flattery somehow misses the mark. What does a professor look like? The stereotype wears a tweed jacket with elbow patches, smokes a pipe, has a beard, and, of course, is male. Regardless of my accomplishments, to many people (including many of my students), I will never "look like a professor."

These women engineers are facing the same sorts of stereotypes.

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