The Woman Scientific

 I was invited by my daughter's school to give a presentation to Year 6 and 7 for Science Technology Engineering and Math Week. Her school is girls only and they wanted to have some female role models to inspire the future scientists. As an aside, I was not a fan of all-female schools, but now I see the point. It's a more relaxed environment. Let's face, it's difficult enough to be turning into a young woman as it is, and doing so under the eyes of teenage boys is definitely distracting, to say the least. Anyway. I am side-tracking here. It was the first time that I had done that, went to my child's school to give a lecture. I absolutely loved it. The girls were polite and interested, asked questions and when I described the impact of climate change on the planet one of them looked at me with big terrified eyes. I had to say that we can still do something about it, and please do not be scared. But it made me reflect. On many things.  It's really important that w...