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==Women as "pioneers in STEM"== | ==Women as "pioneers in STEM"== | ||
Feminists hold up various female programmers such as Margaret Hamilton, as examples of women being ''pioneers'' in STEM. These feminists usually don't elaborate on how this applies to any large portion of women. Nor do feminists acknowledge that engineering such as computer engineering is not seen as, "discovery", type academic work.<ref>http://www.bu.edu/eng/about/dean-lutchen/engineering-is-not-science/</ref> But rather, more to do with relative societal concerns. | Feminists hold up various female programmers such as Margaret Hamilton, as examples of women being ''pioneers'' in STEM. These feminists usually don't elaborate on how this applies to any large portion of women. Nor do feminists acknowledge that engineering such as computer engineering is not seen as, "discovery", type academic work.<ref>http://www.bu.edu/eng/about/dean-lutchen/engineering-is-not-science/</ref> But rather, more to do with relative and temporary societal concerns. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||