Recruiting women for science, technology, engineering and maths: Sheryl Sorby at TEDxFulbrightDublin

[@Sarapv87]

It's great, coming from the Ted Talk about the creation of Goldiblocks, seeing how this wonderful toy is being recommended.

[@ryankali249]

Now I get why I have good spacial skills, despite being a girl. I played ALOT of minecraft. Especially when I was around 8-12 years old.

[@gabyt9946]

I think it's important to point in the beginning that women score lower than men in spatial skills because they didn't developed these skills in the same rate as men

[@rosab6127]

I'm a mechanical engineering student and I had the hardest time with architectural rendering. I don't know why my spacial skills are terrible (I only played with dolls when I was little, sadly) but I'm glad those skills can be learned. I'm not giving up just because it's more challenging.

[@GreetzHey]

Good for you!

[@anjalilalithambika1531]

I wonder why there is a different kind of legos that are more appealing to girls, or "the kind of things that girls" like. Again, marketing on toys, and gender biases that exist in current society. As a girl growing up in a society devoid of gender bias in toys, legos, cars, video games and all kinds of play and sports appealed to me. The answer is not creating toys that appeal to women, but taking away the stereotypes that tell young women to like only particular kinds of things. Research finds that gender stereotypes can affect children as small as 2.5 years old. One better be more careful at what they show young girls.

[@GreetzHey]

I am a woman and as a girl I already had good spatial skills. I thought that it is in my DNA. and it couldn't be learned. Turns out; every example Sheryl Sorby gave I loved doing (building blocks, sketching, (dis)assembling stuff, navigating, etc.) so that's how I learned it. 😂

[@GreetzHey]

And my daughter (and son) also loves it so I'm doing fine as a mother to put her on the path to STEM 😜 On long road trips she loved to navigate via maps on paper inspite of having a navigation system.

[@Xilotl]

I did what was considered for boys when I was growing up. Graphics is super easy.

[@BC-lz6po]

I am inspired by you. Please keep going and always fight for the cause! Thank you for the insightful video :)

[@RedLagoona1]

Great talk !

[@Spr33h0x]

my sister never played with legos or video games or IKEA. but I did

[@saramugabo3187]

Informative talk.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Discrimination in hiring is illegal under Federal law. Why hasn’t she been arrested?

[@gregorywindrum5468]

brilliant

[@mboiko]

The STEM field is very diverse...the problem is the vast number of Indian and Asian women and men in STEM strangely don't seem to count? Notice, not all..but most of the time it's a white woman complaining... "there are not enough women in STEM". We are so used to looking for injustice in every situation these days we sometimes forget to respect an individual's choice...even if it doesn't fit the quota of our perfect world.

[@padmeamidala278]

mboiko There really aren't enough women in STEM. And there's a stigma about women going into it. From a very young age girls are taught to play with princesses and barbies while boys play with legos and lincoln logs. Girls have always been at a disadvantage when it comes to STEM fields. They are looked down upon and made to feel like they don't belong. I can see the prejudice in your comment by disregarding everything she said as "complaining." If a man were talking you wouldn't dare use that word.

[@lien3723]

@@padmeamidala278 Do you get his point though? Asian and Indian women are abundant in engineering. That's what he's saying. It's not about "women" in engineering, it's the "white women" in engineering.

[@padmeamidala278]

Lien Ly No there aren't "abundant" women at all. Maybe more asians and indians compared to whites but definitely not enough women as a whole

[@padmeamidala278]

Christian WTF Your comment has nothing to do with anything in this thread. My point is that women feel like they aren’t capable of going into STEM fields because of the way we have been portrayed for decades.

[@bkshr1172]

@@christianwtf2960 here in Asia...well where i come from there are more women than men in STEM courses. In my university in a recent survey...the ratio is 56:44 female:male...this does say there are more women in STEM courses...only the subject that is different is mechanical engineering with 10:90. That's about it. Seems like the western and eastern world is quite different.

[@barbaraweitschat]

What's happening in this comment section? ... Great talk , building in the sims is probably also helpful and you don't run the risk of stepping onto a lego block

[@lancewalker2595]

Is anyone going to talk about the reading gap?

[@JamesVestal-dz5qm]

My 3d spatial skill on paul ellisons stanford binet was 136 iq. You think the psyche department just said oh hes a man in engineering so give him a profoundly gifted amount of spatial points? Or did i earn that big amount on runescape?

[@andrewcgs]

That's a very interesting topic, but sadly one of the worst, most boring TED Talks I've seen so far...