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A review by bethmitcham
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM by Tonya Bolden
3.0
A book celebrating the achievements of Black Women, because a common theme for all of them is the difficulties faced being seen as an oddity. Many of the contemporary women have devoted time to organizations that promote STEM success in minority and female youth, because of the extra barriers they face. Hopefully seeing other successful people will help motivate them, and then having peers that reflect their images in programs will also reduce some of the stress. Engineering programs are inherently tough -- nobody needs to face social barriers on top of the intellectual ones!
That said, this isn't the kind of thing I'm really into. I want to see the paper version to see if that is a more enticing feel. Reading page after page of micro-biographies of people I don't know got a bit repetitive. Every individual one was great - I felt a bit inadequate when their ages matched mine! -- but with only a few pages per person there wasn't a lot of room for details. The back of the book is devoted to notes, image credits, and an index. This would be a great library reference.
That said, this isn't the kind of thing I'm really into. I want to see the paper version to see if that is a more enticing feel. Reading page after page of micro-biographies of people I don't know got a bit repetitive. Every individual one was great - I felt a bit inadequate when their ages matched mine! -- but with only a few pages per person there wasn't a lot of room for details. The back of the book is devoted to notes, image credits, and an index. This would be a great library reference.