The Future of Women in STEM: What About Their Creativity?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Buzz 1: “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. (Albert Einstein, 1923; news.microsoft.com/europe/2017/12/05/creativity-stem-contradiction-terms-not-europes-girls/) The Buzz 2: “Unfortunately, creativity is often attributed more to men than women…In Europe, women make up fewer than 40 per cent of all scientific researchers – despite the fact the continent has a centuries-old legacy of creative female scientists and inventors.” The Buzz 3: “How many of us use the term ‘creative’ to describe a person who is good at math?…The myth (and it is a myth) that the arts are creative and the sciences are quantitative shapes the way we approach education…the skills that come with creativity are necessary in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, too.” (www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/11/30/creativity-education-is-equally-important-for-careers-in-stem-and-the-arts/?sh=6f38b120554f) We’ll ask Sandra Estok, Cali Bird, Alison Morgan and Louisa Pateman for their take on The Future of Women in STEM: What About Their Creativity?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.5	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:27.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:31.1	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.9	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.4	Welcome, welcome, welcome. That means I have four guests,
0:39.5	and I've got a very exciting topic for all of you. It's near and dear to me because I'm considered
0:44.7	an early woman in tech. I didn't know I was early in anything. I thought I got a late start.
0:49.1	Somebody told me I was a programmer analyst back in the 19, not going to tell you the year.
0:53.9	And I wanted to speak to women who specialize in fields like I was a programmer analyst back in the 19, not going to tell you the year.
1:00.6	And I wanted to speak to women who specialize in fields like science and math and medicine and find out what they're doing about creativity.
1:03.0	Do they have any creativity in their personalities at their fingertips?
1:07.2	And I find out that many of them are authors, they're novelists, they dabble and
1:12.5	they excel in all kinds of creative arts, even physical arts, even artistic arts. So let me
1:19.7	start off with my opening monologue. And by the way, if you're watching us live, I think I forgot
1:23.8	to change the description of the show on Restream. So you might think it's a different show, but we're talking about STEM, women, and what happened to their creativity.
1:32.0	We're going to find it.
1:33.1	So here's quote number one, the buzz.
1:35.1	This is an Albert Einstein quote.
1:36.5	It is verified from 1923.
1:38.7	You may be surprised.
1:39.9	Einstein said, after a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to
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