Women in Science Day

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day - a day to celebrate women in science. I was growing up in country which most famous scientist was Maria Skłodowska-Curie and I always wanted to be scientist. I admire women like her - she wanted to study physics so badly nothing could stop her. She couldn't do it in Russia (Poland didn't existed back then for a while) as women were not allowed to study science on on Universities. The Sorbonne was the only school that allowed women to study physics. So she worked as a governess for years to earn money to get there (and also to get her sister through medicine there) and study. And when her husband died she took his position at the University despite some people thinking women shouldn't be allowed to that either. And she got two Nobel awards in the meantime. Ada Lovelace, before she became the beloved icons of the steampunk, was unknown for many years. Women like Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Ada Lovelace prove that the only reason the history of science is so devoid of important discoveries made by women is only because noone listened. Today more women study in the Universities then men. Unfortunately most of them study Arts or social sciences. I wish more women will get in the computer sciences and physics.

I chose computer programming . But then I turned to my first fascination - biology and I like it here. Most of my year on biology was female. In fact in Poland it's a trend that's been going for years and from what I've seen here there are a lot of women in biology too. Last year's Nobel in biology went to two women and one man. Still the high ranking positions in science are most often taken by men. Still more women get the education then men and less of them get positions. I hope this will change too with the generation change.