8-23-11

Yesterday in Robotics we saw a video about 'The Chairman's Award' in the video the first thing that really struck me as unfair was about the girl who said that she stayed after school for Robotics and when she told her father about it, he didn't believe her, he thought that she wasn't staying to build robots, she stayed to meet boys. Also her father strongly believed that women should not be in engineering and construction, that it was a job for a man. Only until she took him to one of her interviews to get a job he believed that she was actually doing this and was interested in it. That astonished me, to see that people living in this generation still had that kind of mentality, to still believe that women couldn't do certain jobs just because they were 'woman' and were viewed as weaker.