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Olivia Taylor

Spatial Skill is Only One Slice of the Pie

So many scientists and scholars and researchers and media outlets have attributed the problem of women’s underrepresentation in the STEM fields to be a lack of spatial and mechanical reasoning skills. While women have these skills, evidence supp…

An Essay Too Good to be True?

While reading through Spelke and Grace’s chapter in Why Aren’t More Women in Science? I found myself wondering if this dream of an essay could possibly be too good to be true. I believe I had this reaction because of the large amount of …

Math as a Gift

It seems that society has committed an injustice against this generation of young girls; by teaching them that intellectual abilities are something you are born with and either have or don’t have, girls become downtrodden into the stereotype th…