yego.me
yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

The "Sex Factor" for Women in Science | StarTalk

2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

Welcome back to Star Talk! We are featuring my interview with actress Mayim Bialik. She is the neuroscientist on the hit TV series The Big Bang Theory, and I asked her about the portrayal of women scientists. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it working? Let's check it out.

But we did an episode where Bernadette poses for a sexy scientist photo shoot and Amy has a very big problem. I remember that episode and it's something that I'm asked about a lot because I do advocacy for STEM and young women. I'm often asked, you know, what do you think about the, you know, the white starch shirt open with the black bra and the glasses down and the red lips?

And, you know, to me, I don't knock women or scientists who want to do that. For me, that's not the way that I choose to portray women in science. You know, I don't think we need to take our clothes off, you know, to show that women in science can also take their clothes off.

But I think, you know, part of the advocacy that I try and do is to put a fresh face, you know, a positive face and a female face on these subjects. I think that a lot of what's missing from trying to engage young women is not just the sex factor or the attractiveness factor, which I do agree might be more important in this day and age than it might have been 10 or 20 or 50 years ago.

But I think also that a lot of women don't know the kinds of careers that are available to them. People picture themselves, or at least I did: I don't want to be alone in a lab for the rest of my life. I don't want to be in a nerdy lab coat and ugly glasses for the rest of my life.

And that's what, when I was in elementary school and junior high, that's what I thought it was. But when I got older and I understood, oh, marine biology is actually being a scientist, working in the field, working with animals, working in the environment. You know, all those things are also science.

If you like engineering and you want to do coding, knock yourself out! But there are many careers that involve a lot of creativity and a lot of being out and about. And that's, I think, what we need to try and communicate to girls as young as possible.

CapitolTV's DISTRICT VOICES - District 5: Electric Sparks From Falling Water
Safari Live - Day 329 | National Geographic

More Articles

View All
Standard deviation of residuals or Root-mean-square error (RMSD)
What we’re going to do in this video is calculate a typical measure of how well the actual data points agree with a model—in this case, a linear model. There are several names for it; we could consider this to be the standard deviation of the residuals, a…
Limitations of GDP | Economic indicators and the business cycle | AP Macroeconomics | Khan Academy
In other videos, we have already talked about the idea of GDP in some depth—gross domestic product, a measure of the aggregate goods and services produced in a country in a year. But what we’re going to discuss in this video is how good a measure GDP is, …
Watch this before learning Japanese | The common mistakes beginners do when learning Japanese)
Please don’t do these mistakes if you’re a beginner learning Japanese. Hi guys, it’s me Dy. If you’re new to this channel, I’m half Japanese and you know I grew up talking Japanese, and Japanese is my mother tongue. Today, we’re going to talk about the m…
You Are Not Where You Think You Are
Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that? While this may feel like a daft question, it turn…
Re: Which Planet is the Closest?
Hello Internet. While working on a future video, I offhandedly wrote, “Venus, the closest planet to Earth.” But later, while editing, I thought, “You know, let me check that.” Which led to me to this video by Dr. Stockman explaining how, no, Venus is not …
Alien Oceans | Explorers in the Field
(peaceful music) When I was a kid looking up at the stars, I really always wondered how did we get here and are we alone? My name is Bethany Ehlmann. I’m a professor of planetary science at Caltech and Research Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Labora…