STEM is Pink: Reimagining STEM Beyond Stereotypes
Do you ever associate colours with subjects? For me, English and literature were yellow, geography was green, history was red, and math was blue. Actually, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as a whole was blue: cold, logical, calculated, precise. Which to me meant, it wasn’t for me. I saw myself as colourful, imaginative, creative, innovative, warm, and soft. A lot of adjectives I never associated with the colour blue. However, I didn’t see myself as pink either. Growing up, I rejected pink. Not because pink wasn’t pretty, but because it felt expected and cliché. I wanted to be a rebel, a very original individual, and I was desperate to prove that I wasn’t just like every other girl. So, in the spirit of being different and proving a point, when it time came for me to choose a career path, I decided to venture into engineering. Aeronautical engineering, to be exact. It was a love-hate story: I thrived in some courses and was utterly annihilated by others. For example, I really enjoyed physics and programming, but I hated calculus so much that I failed it twice. To me, this was further proof that I didn’t belong in engineering.
STEM is Pink: Reimagining STEM Beyond Stereotypes
Do you ever associate colours with subjects? For me, English and literature were yellow, geography was green, history was red, and math was blue. Actually, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as a whole was blue: cold, logical, calculated, precise. Which to me meant, it wasn’t for me. I saw myself as colourful, imaginative, creative, innovative, warm, and soft. A lot of adjectives I never associated with the colour blue. However, I didn’t see myself as pink either. Growing up, I rejected pink. Not because pink wasn’t pretty, but because it felt expected and cliché. I wanted to be a rebel, a very original individual, and I was desperate to prove that I wasn’t just like every other girl. So, in the spirit of being different and proving a point, when it time came for me to choose a career path, I decided to venture into engineering. Aeronautical engineering, to be exact. It was a love-hate story: I thrived in some courses and was utterly annihilated by others. For example, I really enjoyed physics and programming, but I hated calculus so much that I failed it twice. To me, this was further proof that I didn’t belong in engineering.
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