What exactly is history making? She’s not the first female astronaut, that was the cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963. She’s not even the first non-white female astronaut. Judith Resnick, who is Jewish, went into space in 1984. Mae Jemison, who is black, went into space in 1992. Kalpana Chawla, who is an Indian-American, went into space in 1997. So what is so historical? Sure, most astronauts are male. This is not unique to space. When I got my first programming job, in 1981, there were very few female programmers. When I was in grad school, in the 1990s, in CS, I was usually the only female in my class. If you want more women in technical fields, education needs to change. While neither of my daughters were told, like I was when taking HS chemistry, that girls never do well in science, they were told math is hard from an early age. Fewer sexist teachers would be a bigger boon to women. There are very few astronauts, of either sex. Wouldn’t encouraging and training more young women to be plumbers, electricians or finish carpenters, have a greater impact?
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