It's Monday, May 22nd, 2017, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indrae Viscontas.

Each week, we bring you a new in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.

This week, we're continuing our collaboration with the great-sighted podcast and our

discussion of issues related to women in science, technology, engineering, and math. And I'm joined by

co-host, Alexander Kim. Hello. Nice to be back. Welcome back. Yeah. Just to let our listeners

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MHZChoice.com slash minds and use the code Mines at checkout. That's mhcchoice.com slash mn-d-s. So, Alex, this week we're going to

be talking about women in engineering fields in particular. Yeah. And you were actually telling me

about this book that you found about women in engineering, kind of, you know. Yeah, yeah, totally by surprise. So, you know,

I have a three-year-old son and now, of course, to get him to go to sleep, which is a very

important activity for all of us, we have to read him lots of books. And of course, he wants

to read the same books over and over and over again, and it can be really boring for me if the

story isn't great. So I stumbled across this book called Iggy Peck Architect,

and it's really well-written and beautifully illustrated,

and it's about a little boy who builds things.

Like, for example, he takes his diapers and builds a huge tower,

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