College Admissions Essay: The Role Of Women In Science

Have you ever heard that you can’t do anything because of you’re a woman? Most women have, as I grew up I noticed that there wasn’t a lot of women in the field of science. If I did they were just nurses never the doctors or surgeons. I have always liked science; my parents never discouraged me from liking something the “guys” liked or did. I may have gotten called a nerd because of it, but I didn’t care because I knew that science would have a bright future for me in the end. I love to learn new things about science; we need science in the world. It helps to introduce new cures, technology. Science has made me want to be more like the infamous women Marie Curie, Mae Jamison, and Jane Goodall. I know that if we had more women like this in

Science is predominately taken by male students and people are trying to get more females into the field. “Women make up half of the labor pool and hold roughly 30 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the U.S., but fewer than 21 percent of female characters in family films, prime-time programs or children’s shows are depicted as working in these fields.” (Welle & Smith). This comes with stereotypes that women can’t go into the field of science because it’s to nerdy. Stereotypes have caused some women to quit science because there’s a stereotype that women aren’t as good as men at math or science. So then we become invisible even though most like Marie Curie have been noticed due to her contributions to science. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of polonium and radium. Even though she received the prize alone, she shared the honor with her late husband Pierre Curie. We have other women such as Mae Jamison who was the first African-American women to become and astronaut or Jane Goodall the woman who studied