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Para Todas as Meninas na Ciência | Zélia Ludwig | TEDxRuaHalfeld


good night
I would like you to imagine a person
doing research in the laboratory imagine
a scientist how do you imagine
this is your part and think a little
Good thing you imagined a man with
white beard an old man
You did not make a mistake because that’s what
Most people then think
you look at this is a very
famous is the conversion of solveira and this
very old photo of 1926 we can
see the presence of a single female aline
O
moor ran and the other men as
you imagined all the lords of
beard doing science
all men and this has not changed if the
people look at the convention the same kind of
Convention that the 2011 Convention
we will notice the presence of two
women one at each end a well
away from the other and picking up the newest
most recent of this convention
we have only five women and they
also remain far from one another
distributed and the face of the face scientist
of the man who does science is the same
expensive and we can not see any
black woman present in this group of
scientists and this is a very
famous because all the scientists who
participate in it are people who were
invited
so I do not even want you to sign up
you do not pay to be invited
so look at the face of our science
few women far away from one of the
other and not a black woman and it does not
It’s something that happens
just out there is something that happens here
Brazil also has data from the
What does he treat?
all bags from the bag
scientific initiation until the
Gentlemen that would be the productivity bag
and we can see that happening this
first record here that I show to
you
it brings the percentage of women
white people doing science in brazil
so start with a pretty number
considerable which is 50% that this nice
agent was looking the way she
increases in the career that
number goes up by 15% people are out of 50
Agent goes to 75 so this is a number
too small to pay attention
that means that it does not increase so much
like this
and if we pick up the cut for
black women we start with 30% and
this number drops to 7% as you
increases as you go along
in your career
It’s a very small number so I stopped.
and I made a parallel with my life with the
my career I’m a black woman
scientist
how many black women scientist people
see in Brazil today and I realize that
when I went from the first lecture to
children
I asked from a children’s audience I
I have the scientist’s face as children.
they said no
so why do not we have
black women in science for lack of
model for this issue to be the kind of
children, girls do not come
represented
they do not identify themselves in this picture
then they will want a scientist then
I stopped and thought I was a woman.
black how can I be
scientist to go through all these
adversities and comes to realize my
I work then I thought I need
do something to change this
situation
So I remembered my whole career.
of the difficulties I have experienced in
to study university
I lived in São Paulo
in the suburb of são paulo region
away from the university of São Paulo I
I had great difficulty to be able to go to
the university had to catch attractive
and take the bus
So I start telling your story.
with children they identify with
my career with my difficulty
and even so I persist I attended
university in a course where most
were white men where I had no
black women teachers who
represent
so the model I had to follow the
My career was my father, my father.
Turner Toolmaker
inventions that like to search for
likes to study and he encouraged me
so I had a childhood that was
encouraged by the presence of my father and
it kept me going and why so
few women, since these
women are what women are
making
so I went in search of more answers
the answer to that
they came from me the history of
These women’s lives are very similar
with mine is a story of struggle and
overcoming of faces
so I had to run after it and
these women went through a lot
So much of what I went through
It’s interesting to talk about this because
It influences the work I do.
today with children and this influences
in the work I do with our
girls to come to the
science
I like to show what I like
of science
When I was little, my father gave me a
encyclopaedia that science illustrated in
cover of it had the globe the earth then
I wanted to know and explore and within it
every page I read I saw equations I
via the formulas a series of things
circuits and I wanted to read more
more and asked and asked was very
Curious and my father answers me is always
which I then asked the curiosity
my they always and I have been liking was
taking pleasure that maybe wanting more and
More and more
so there is the answer so that the
people bring more girls patience to
People need to show these girls
where are the other scientists
there was woman doing science there
black woman doing science
this number 7 percent corresponds to 5
thousand researchers and they are there
distributed by universities
So if we can count on the
girls the history of these researchers
they will have models so they
inspire tomorrow and it’s backwards
That’s what I went on and I started doing
disclosure of these stories
I started to tell the lectures
visits to schools and show this
problem until the student told me
teacher the problems we already know
So what do we need to do to
I can change my mind
so I went after actions and services that
I said something interesting to those
Photos
women are far away from one of the
two others are very separate
So what do we need people to do?
You need to join hands we need
be together
If I hand you you give one to the
another is much easier to
people arrive at the door
so we’re going to add knowledge then
We have to be united so that the
people can inspire and have science
so this is what we need to do
So, together, it’s one thing.
important is how the role of
men in this situation it is important that
men understand that if they are
alone they can even faster
but if they are holding hands with
The women had us together a long time ago.
farther but farther away because
I want to work with diversity and
when working with diversity in the
research you go much further if
reaches many more paths and reaches
a lot more people and for us to reach
this so that we can do this
we need here we need
inspire our girls we need
breathe our children and this I go
to search where in my life story I
someone inspired me because the
that makes the difference between having a certain
number of women doing science or
other are not the opportunities and if you
I do not have the opportunity
so you have to create them during
all this time I’ve studied many
of times and there was opportunity in
outside I wanted to be
What I did I had to mark
I got in touch with the others
universities and get help to
could be out of Brazil and that helped
a lot of my career this strengthened
including a job that people
have that is a famous job the staff
of toys personal collaboration nasa
teacher side the united states then
This is a job that has changed.
revolutionized my career but this
because because I went after a
opportunity and she is going through
my girls is this inspiration that I
want is going for girls
then we need to be able to inspire
these girls and how these actions are
these actions are done by placing
hand in the dough
So we need is where those
children are and encourage these
children to practice doing science
so we go to a school and the kids
they will learn to program
We are feeling, may we data because
They are going to schedule a girl with them.
they will do things that are important and
that will make a difference in their lives
tomorrow they will ride a circuit then
I did not even feel that they are understanding the
what they are doing and we will
broadening the jokes awareness and
at the same time empowering them to
they feel like giving themselves so that they
feel confident about what they are
making
and who goes to the schools with me
in this work are the students of
university
then these students are going to
with me when they do this job
encouraging others to inspire others
children it also feels the pirates
because he feels like an agent
multiplier then young has a lot
Moreover, this scientific and
Social
so it helps a lot in these two
years of design
We already visited several schools we already
we attended several girls and the program only
tends to grow because because it has magic
more people are making a
network where people are connected
to continue
Work then I put my little hand there.
to represent two things the hands
given that we need the attached silver
with each other and with each other and
put your hand on the dough that we have to
to do then children really like
I just want the girls to be
scientists that it is good that they are
scientists like mathematics
chemistry physics engineering
but besides that I want them to be
you donate your will
self-giving, then they can
be a scientist yes but they can also
be what they want and they can
be where they want because that’s it
what do we want?
are these actions that we want for the
world is what we are doing in
power our girls so they can
whether or not she wants to like them
want
thanks
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