Science Reckons Women Aren’t Capable Of Doing Most Jobs, We Call BS
Science, frankly, can go stuff itself. Because according to science, us ladies are pretty much incapable of doing any job – something that is quite obviously untrue because today so many inspiring women are taking the working world by storm.
So where’s all this nonsense come from? Two reports have emerged, suggesting that females struggle to achieve in both science and creative based jobs. Apparently we’re intimidated by scientific careers and not creative enough for others roles.
The first report, conducted by Sky News using research garnered by EDF Energy, has revealed that a third of British schoolgirls don’t reckon they’re clever enough to become scientists – despite many enjoying and being good at science.
In the last couple of years, the amount of women working in scientific and technical roles has increased by eight per cent, yet the stats from this study showed that boys are still five times more likely than girls to want to become engineers.
And women like Sarah Button prove that females are just as capable than men at taking on science-based jobs.
“There’s absolutely nothing that a man can do in engineering that I can’t,” Button, a chemical engineer, told Sky News. “I chose science and engineering because I wanted to have a positive impact on the world and leave my mark in a really tangible way.”
But as well as not going after scientific and technical jobs, women apparently aren’t creative either. A second two-part study conducted by Duke University found that men think far more creatively than us girls.
In the first half of the study, 80 participants were given a task that analysed their ability to think outside the box or to connect the dots. They associated creativity with traditionally masculine traits – such as competitiveness, risk-taking, decisiveness and ambition – rather than with stereotypically feminine traits, including cooperation, supportiveness and understanding.
The second part of the study involved 169 participants reading about an architect or a fashion designer. Some of those polled were told the professional was male, while others were led to believe the person was female.
They were then asked to rate the professional’s work on creativity, originality and thinking outside the box. While there wasn’t much difference between the male and female fashion designers, the male architects were rated as more creative than female ones and voted as more innovative than their female counterparts.
We’ll let you form your own judgement on this one.
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