{"id":711686,"date":"2026-07-26T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711686\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:02:09","slug":"nasa-boss-from-hitchin-praises-rise-of-women-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711686\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa boss from Hitchin praises rise of women in science"},"content":{"rendered":"

While she has noticed more women studying Stem subjects, figures from Stem Women, external<\/a> suggest the number working in those fields has risen only gradually.<\/p>\n

Despite gains in student enrolment, graduation rates and workforce participation, the report suggests parity with the number of men working in Stem is still decades away.<\/p>\n

Her advice to young women today is to follow their curiosity and ignore claims that science is not for them: “If somebody says girls don’t do that, then that’s just not true.”<\/p>\n

Fox has often credited her father with inspiring her love of space after he showed her the moon landing on television when she was eight months old.<\/p>\n

But she said her mother deserved “all the credit for the determination” she developed as a child.<\/p>\n

She said: “Even though she may not want to walk on the moon, she was going to make sure I had every opportunity if I wanted to.<\/p>\n

“There’s times where you think ‘I just can’t do this, I’m just going to give up’… she had a very, very good way of just being like ‘no, let’s not just give up, let’s just give it a go and if you fail, then we’ll go do something else’.”<\/p>\n

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