What If RBG Had Been a Scientist?
"When I’m sometimes asked ‘When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?’ and my answer is: ‘When there are nine.’ People are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg After the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, I found myself choked up. It is the tough loss of a great woman who meant a great deal to many, including my young daughter as she has grown into a young woman. Ginsburg was an advocate for gender equality, an area in which the "STEM" disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has long lagged. In high school, I did not have a single woman as a math or science teacher. As an undergraduate student, I did not have a single woman as a math or science professor. As a graduate student, I did not have a single woman as a math or science professor. And, when I joined the faculty of the College of Mines and Earth Sciences at the Univer...