U.S. News & World Report – Tierney Sneed
“When the mind-bending filmmaker Christopher Nolan began working on the script for “Interstellar” with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, he made a crucial change: he opted to make Murph – a brilliant scientist and one of the film’s central characters – a woman…considering that women are drastically underrepresented in STEM fields, a major Hollywood movie that prominently features two bright female scientists — Anne Hathaway plays an astronaut — in leading roles makes for a powerful recruiting tool for girls to take up science, technology, math or engineering.” (more)