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Every year since 2009 I've demonstrated in Instrumentation lab in the autumn term. Instrumentation is a third/fourth year elective Physics course, and normally about half of the students also do the lab.
Every year we have between 10 and 30 students in the lab. Every year a percentage of them is female. At most, about a quarter of them. One abysmal year it was 5%.
This year, we have 14 students. Seven of them are female.
Seven. SEVEN. Half of this third-year lab is FEMALE. We have never even been close to parity before.
And they're good, too, all of the students. Some are stronger than others, of course, but overall the standard is high.
TL;DR: HALF MY PHYSICS STUDENTS ARE FEMALE. THIS IS AMAZING. I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT. THIS HAS PRETTY MUCH MADE MY YEAR IN TEACHING Y'ALL.
WIN \o/ \o/ \o/
Every year we have between 10 and 30 students in the lab. Every year a percentage of them is female. At most, about a quarter of them. One abysmal year it was 5%.
This year, we have 14 students. Seven of them are female.
Seven. SEVEN. Half of this third-year lab is FEMALE. We have never even been close to parity before.
And they're good, too, all of the students. Some are stronger than others, of course, but overall the standard is high.
TL;DR: HALF MY PHYSICS STUDENTS ARE FEMALE. THIS IS AMAZING. I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT. THIS HAS PRETTY MUCH MADE MY YEAR IN TEACHING Y'ALL.
WIN \o/ \o/ \o/
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THE STUDENTS DID IT BY BEING AWESOME AT PHYSICS WHILST ALSO BEING FEMALE PRESENTING
GO THE STUDENTS
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I know the M:F intake ratio for physics hasn't shifted a lot in the last few years, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for next year.
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(I remember being in a Comp Sci class where I was one of two women. It was terrible. I dropped out. Ugh)
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(When I started university in the States, there were 63 students in my physics course. Two of us were female. Our first-year physics lecturers were so horrible to us we both switched out - me to chemistry, the other to engineering - in our second year.)
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BUT NOT TODAY, TODAY IS CAUSE FOR JOY AND CELEBRATION IN PHYSICS. :D
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We're living in the future
Would you object to my tweeting a link to your post? It's the sort of thing I think others would find heartening too.
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Will have to ask my local physics teaching friends what the current numbers are like in her classes.
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That would be interesting to know!
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