Women In Science

I really liked the article linked below...

http://readwrite.com/2013/06/21/meet-the-women-of-nasas-2013-astronaut-class?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29#awesm=~o9Da40tHlYwOvN

It is about the women who are in training to be an astronaut. What is particularly nice about it is that these women had jobs previously in science and engineering and applied for the program. What is great about this is that they are women who could have just as easily as grown up down the road from us. In the AP Physics class, female students are far and few between. One year, I had a class of 12 boys and 2 girls -- certainly an unbalanced ratio. Articles like these are great leisurely reading material in the sciences that will help encourage young girls to pursue the Math and Sciences; a field that some young girls feel for one reason or another, probably from some wildly absurd stereotype, they can't perform well in -- but are at absolutely no disadvantage to their male counterparts.