The whole day the
internet has been shaking with lots of outrage over the EU’s video to attract girls to
doing science. To be honest, I don’t really mind that these are young girls
that aren’t even doing science while being observed by a guy. I don’t mind that
they’re wearing skirts and heels and I don’t mind that the background is pink.
I look like that sometimes and if it even persuades one girl that science is
fun and for girls too, then that’s fine. I don’t think it will though, and what
pisses me off about it is that the EU probably spent a whole bunch of money on
this.
And last year I applied
for a grant that was funded by the EU. This grant (for post-docs going abroad)
had a pretty stable success rate of about 20%. However, last year all of a
sudden there was a lot of talk about that year being the last year that they
would fund this grant because of money shortage. And since you can only apply
once, twice the amount of people applied than normally. And even though I
scored within the top 20% I didn’t get the grant because they only had a set
amount of money.
So instead of wasting
that money on that video that pisses everybody off, you could have given me
that money, EU! And I would have done real science with it. You could even have
come and filmed me, and for some extra money I would wear heels, a skirt and
even lipstick.
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