women in physics

The Token Female

The Token Female

I grew up during the 1980s in a mining village in Barnsley where the village hall was used to teach the boys how to box and the girls how to dance. Never the other way round – yes, Billy Elliot could have been set in Barnsley. I don’t understand why it wasn’t socially acceptable for boys to learn to dance or girls to box in the 1980s, but it really concerns me that in 2020 things are basically the same.