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Cake day: June 29th, 2024

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  • I was lucky enough to grow up in an environment that did neither explicitly nor implicitly teach that there are things women are supposed to be good at or bad at. There are a lot of women in my extended family who pursued careers in STEM and even some in male dominated fields like car mechanics. Others have “traditional” women’s jobs like hairdresser or teacher. It was never discussed, it was normal for me.

    I think the first time I heard that women are supposedly bad at maths, was sometime in elementary school, when it was already my favourite subject.

    It made me quite resilient to these kinds of internalised stereotypes.