Author: Eileen Pollack

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If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.

If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.

- Eileen Pollack

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

- Eileen Pollack

For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

- Eileen Pollack

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

- Eileen Pollack

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

- Eileen Pollack

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

- Eileen Pollack

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

- Eileen Pollack

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