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Women in STEM, particularly women of colour, often have to provide more evidence of being competent to be treated as equally capable as men.
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Women in STEM report pressure to fill traditionally feminine roles. Asian-Americans report the most backlash for assertive, self-promoting behaviours.
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Almost half of black and latina women in STEM fields have been mistaken for a janitor or admin staff in their own offices.
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Marie Tharp
1920-2006, USA![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– Created the 1st map of the entire ocean floor.
– Her work was an important part of the highly controversial theory of continental drift.
– Was once fired for “girl talk” and defending her science.
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Lise Meitner
1878-1968, Sweden/Austria![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– Helped lead the research group that discovered the nuclear fission of uranium.
– This work formed the basis for nuclear weapons.
– Unjustly snubbed for a Nobel Prize on this work (her research partner, Otto Hahn, did receive the prize).
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Elsie MacGill
1905-1980, Canada![Scale 3](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/themes/phylo/img/num/3.png)
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– World’s first female aircraft designer.
– Designed and built the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft during World War II.
– Commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, published in 1970.