She Knows – Mayim Bialik
“You don’t need to be a mathematician to know there is gender disparity when it comes to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in this country…How do we reverse this trend?…when I was about 15 years old and filming Blossom, I had a tutor who was the first female role model in science I ever had. She showed me that someone could be as passionate about biology as I thought you could only be about art or poetry….But girls like me shouldn’t have to wait until high school to meet a female role model in the sciences! We should be exposing female students to strong female STEM role models as early as possible — in elementary school.”(more)