Ada Lovelace Day (aka #ALD10 on Twitter) is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Women and men, all across the world, are encouraged to blog about the unsung heroines of these traditionally male-dominated fields, not only to acknowledge their contributions, but to teach us all a little more about the female history behind the development of our modern world.
While my post acknowledges the tremendous, yet humble, contributions of a female science teacher, I specifically chose this person because she also represents a less-talked-about issue facing so many women in particularly those fields traditionally “reserved” for men, such as science and technology – and that is the issue of being judged by our looks rather than our work. I have changed my “heroine’s” name to protect her privacy. In doing so, she is no less acknowledged, and probably even more recognizable as someone we’ve all known at some point in our lives.
