Girls and Math: Why Are We Still Having This Conversation?

A recent article To End the Gender Skill Gap In STEM, Add Competition To The Equation caught my attention and then made be ask, "Why are we still having this conversation?" Who says women can't do math and science?

Girls and math has been a topic of discussion for as long as I can remember.  Do you remember the outrage when Barbie claimed math was tough?

Did anybody see the off-Broadway play, Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen, which asked the question "Can a girl know Pi to 53 decimal places and still be popular?"  I personally did not see this play but do hope , for the sake of all women, that the answer was, "YES!"

NPR has regularly talked about encouraging American Girls to Embrace Math.  My preference?  Let's stop talking about it and take some action.

We have passed the holiday season but Tis The Season to Encourage Little Girls to Become Engineers. Lets stop talking about engineering girls for a man's world and take some action. As Danica McKellar so boldly writes, "Math Doesn't Suck."  And as Nell GreenfieldBoyce so proudly shared Girls' Math Skills Equal Boys. 

Kudos goes out to Diane Sawyer and Person of the Week: Sheryl Sandburg.  We need more women like Sandburg to take charge and change the future for women.