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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice. – Philip… Continue Reading “Choose Your Hobbies Well”
Category: Books, Engineering, UncategorizedTags: #stemgirls, coronavirus, covid-19, Engineering, engineeringgirls, Fire Engineering, hobbies, social distancing, STEM, Stemettes, steminist, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM, working mothers, working women
Posted on March 14, 2020
by The Numerate Ninny
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A fundraiser for the Northern Nevada Math Club, with the hubby. Will Americans ever learn that it’s maths not math? But at least no-one here is afraid of Covid 19.
Category: Engineering, mathematics, UncategorizedTags: #stemgirls, #womeninstem, Engineering, engineeringgirls, Fire Engineering, fire protection engineering, mathematics, Numbers, Numeracy, STEM, Womeninengineering
Finally! I watched the movie Hidden Figures (and enjoyed it). However, seeing Katherine Johnson’s routine twenty-minute dash from her desk to the ‘Colored Ladies Room’, triggered a conversation about my own ‘Ladies’ experiences at the beginning of my career. My first assignment was at… Continue Reading “Skip to the Loo”
Category: Engineering, gender bias, mathematics, UncategorizedTags: #stemgirls, Engineering, engineeringgirls, Fire Engineering, Hidden Figures, Mechanical Engineering, STEM, Stemettes, steminist, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM, womenshistory, Womensrights, working women, Workplace
Ladies, if your sweetheart doesn’t bring you to a Science Museum for Valentine’s weekend, then you need to find a man that really understands how women think!
Category: UncategorizedTags: #stemgirls, #womeninstem, Engineering, engineeringgirls, Fire Engineering, gender issues, space, STEM, Stemettes, steminist, technology, Women in Engineering, Womeninengineering
This is a picture of me some 18 years ago, on the day I took my youngest home for the first time. Within a few short weeks, I was back in a doctor’s office talking about lumps, biopsies, and pathologies. Pregnancy had left a… Continue Reading “Eighteen”
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Category: Engineering, mathematics, UncategorizedTags: Engineering, engineeringgirls, New Year 2020, Numbers, Numeracy, STEM, Stemettes, steminist, Women in STEM, Womeninengineering