What’s the deal with women and STEM? Though women fill close to half the jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math. And why is that? A controversial fresh video released by the European Commission suggests that females give STEM the cold shoulder since being a scientist, well, just isn’t very sexy. Entitled “Science: It’s A Girl Body!,” the one-minute music video intermixes images of sexy babes in small skirts and stilettos with images from the earth of science — beakers, circuit boards, molecular models, and the like. The video seems to affirm that scientists can be fashionistas, and vice versa. Glance at More…
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