STEM Needs Girls—How Mission Unstoppable Aims To Spark Belonging

When you picture a scientist on television, who do you see? Too often, the answer is a man in a white lab coat, hunched over a microscope, or a stereotypical “mad genius” bent on world domination. That narrow framing has consequences. Representation doesn’t just shape stories; it shapes who believes they belong in those stories. And when young girls rarely see themselves in the STEM field as scientists, coders, engineers, or innovators, they are less likely to imagine themselves becoming one.

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