A recent story in Newsweek, “Revenge of the Nerdette,” focused on a team of “knock-out braniacs” – the Nerd Girls – a group of women engineering students at Tufts U.
This is a good thing, right? Women engineers should be in the news. Engineering itself should be in the news so that kids (especially girls) can learn how interesting it is. And what the “Nerd Girls” are doing is interesting: they’re building a solar car.
So then why was this story in the “Culture” section of the mag instead of “Technology”? And did the title really have to add the diminutive “ette” to nerd?
Apparently, it’s still news – cultural news – that women can be smart and pretty AND/OR can be interested as well as talented in the sciences.
Let’s at least make it tech news next time, okay?
Links:
- “Revenge of the Nerdette”
- Nerd Girls Reality Television