After remarks by British biochemist Tim Hunt went viral – specifically that women in science can’t take criticism, and cry and fall in love too much to be useful – women around the world working in science thoroughly criticized the Nobel scientist on Twitter, starting the hashtag “distractingly sexy” on Twitter to mock the scientist’s belief that girls in labs are trouble.
Even before and after the outrage among women at what many read as sexist remarks, a group at Texas Tech is committed to gender equity in STEM fields. The West Texas Association for Women in Science is a group at Texas Tech founded to bond women in science and provide outreach for girls in the community who have an interest in STEM.
