Without female STEM role models, we risk acquiescing to a world where even brilliant minds like Bouman are dragged into discriminatory devolutions.
As viral images go, scientists couldn’t have asked for a better one-two combo. On April 10, the first-ever image of a black hole and its burning ring of gas was seen around the world. Next, a different kind of caught-in-the-moment radiance—the overjoyed reaction of Katherine Bouman, whose algorithm played a role in the black hole’s capture.It was also, unfortunately, a rare day, with the black hole representing a troubling metaphor.
That concept spills into pop culture, confirmed by a 2018 study by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which found that nearly two-thirds of women working in STEM cite X-Files protagonist Dana Scully as a personal role model who increased their confidence to excel in a male-dominated profession.
Not even 24 hours after her moment of elation, an army of Reddit and Twitter users took to their keyboards to indicate, falsely, that an astrophysicist named Andrew Chael had written 850,000 lines of code that led to the discovery, and that Bouman was taking credit for it.
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