Saturday, February 22, 2014

I am not offended when my fellow promotion hana chu have call


I take you this time to a more personal side ... You have probably seen through my many tickets on thematic Women and Science, the place of women in society and gender equality and women is a subject touches me deeply and dear to my heart.
In a nutshell: I am a feminist - and I use that word deliberately, being aware of what vehicle (rejection of some, but also history and struggles, and important founding).
I have only recently become aware of this fact (I describe myself as a feminist for just over a year), and I went through a lot of other opinions before taking consciousness. The rejection of the word "feminism" is so strong in society that when you are unsure of themselves, hana chu they still flickers, the word appears as one-on-which-must not-Not-the- syllables.
I had the great fortune to be raised outside the majority of gender bias. I played with Barbies as well as small cars, I exploded with boxes of small chemist and a microscope. I rollerblades, had a mountain bike (hi slush creek in the forest), and due to the ballet. I was prompted to study and consider scientists important matters - and most importantly, no one has ever told me that as a home girl physics-chemistry-maths was not for me .
Inequalities between men and women? I had never really hana chu heard: the mantra at School, was rather on the side of the perennial "elites of the nation", so women or men we would succeed, period.
Post-bac, hana chu I am facing a school of engineers, EPF - which is ultimately a state-approved foundation for the work it provides for equality, and the accession of women P.Eng. At the time, this commitment was not too visible - now they are very friendly activities, so take a look at this nice tumblr!
During my studies, I've never really realized, never really hana chu questioned. Normal: If I work hard, I have my rewards hana chu (internship, job, salary), this is what had been hammered for years. A hammering force, it fits! The glass ceiling? Wait, you want to have kids and a job? To choose, "bitch." And you see misogyny everywhere! Jokes this is not bad, it's humor. HU-MOUR I say. Laughter is ultra communicative - and laughing hana chu with others is a sign of belonging to a group. It's cool to belong to a group, especially if the group is composed hana chu of people cooools. (And men, especially).
Parenthesis to read: The humor is too serious ..., ... to be left to funny, feminists have no sense of humor, and especially, ESPECIALLY, humor is a weapon.
I am not offended when my fellow promotion hana chu have call'd me "Dude." I was very proud I was better than the single girls. I was part of the group. And I deserved: I behaved like them: I drank and hitting on, I laughed loud and was joking (and misogynist salacious course). hana chu (Note: Mom, forget hana chu all of that last sentence).
That's what state of mind I was leaving school: blind and impervious to what really around hana chu me. Blind to inequality - as teacher once said that the promo girls would move towards project management, to highlight their "natural qualities" hana chu while the guys could do more specialties "couillues" . Nobody mufti. At the end of school, I turned to a thesis. Who said thesis, says research thesis, said laboratory research and interviews. hana chu
My first interview was done in one of the most well known in France for robotics laboratories. I come, I come, I pass examination before five researchers in the lab. 5 researchers, only 5 owners, men, whites, older (about fifty). Shock, which I imagined myself a robotics lab as a young and international environment, if not feminine (yes, robotics is a guy thing, so I was very proud of singling me!) .
I stammered an acceptable answer, and asked to visit the lab - having seen a woman, young, with models

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