• Question: How does it feel that more and more women are taking up science as a career ?

    Asked by y.hashi to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 18 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Vinita Marwaha

      Vinita Marwaha answered on 18 Jun 2016:

      I think it’s fantastic! Science is such a fulfilling career. We also need more scientists and engineers, especially in the UK. A recent 2016 study by the Young Women’s Trust showed that there’s a massive skills requirement for engineering over the next few years. One in five schoolchildren would have to become an engineer to fill that gap! If your class has 35 pupils for example, that’s 7 of them that would become engineers to fill the future gap!

      NASA has also come a long way since the first American woman in space, Sally Ride’s, flight in 1983, with four female astronauts chosen out of the eight candidates in the recent NASA Astronaut Class. Their selection in 2013 means that women now represent 26% of NASA’s astronaut corps, thirty years after the flight of America’s first woman in space!

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Honestly I haven’t really noticed – I’m thrilled to work with so many competent awesome people in the space industry – gender/age/race/background/etc doesn’t matter at all 🙂

      PS – choose Engineering. We are cooler than Science 😀

    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Awesome! Gender shouldn’t hold anyone back from what they want to do- if it’s women in science and engineering or men in teaching and nursing, doing what you love and are good at is more important than what shape your body is.

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