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Women in Tech: #ILookLikeAnEngineer

The #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag on Twitter was started in response to negative comments questioning how plausible it was that a woman like Isis Anchalee, who appeared in her company's advertising, could actually be a female engineer. Anchalee wrote a Medium post about the sexism in tech after some said she was too pretty to be an engineer. She then asked other female engineers to share photos with the hashtag, which gained widespread usage. When shown Anchalee's photo, people at the National Air and Space Museum gave varied guesses about her job that avoided stereotypes, showing that assumptions exist about what female engineers look like.

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Women in Tech: #ILookLikeAnEngineer

The #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag on Twitter was started in response to negative comments questioning how plausible it was that a woman like Isis Anchalee, who appeared in her company's advertising, could actually be a female engineer. Anchalee wrote a Medium post about the sexism in tech after some said she was too pretty to be an engineer. She then asked other female engineers to share photos with the hashtag, which gained widespread usage. When shown Anchalee's photo, people at the National Air and Space Museum gave varied guesses about her job that avoided stereotypes, showing that assumptions exist about what female engineers look like.

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A Face For STEM: Online Effort Targets Assumptions About Women In Tech

DAVID GREENE, HOST:


Over the past few days, the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer has taken _______ on Twitter. It's a
reaction ___________ some negative comments about ______ female engineers should look.
Here's NPR's Sam Sanders.
SAM SANDERS, BYLINE:
Isis Anchalee is a 22-year-old woman in _________.
ISIS ANCHALEE:
I am a platform engineer at a company called _____________.
SANDERS:
The firm lost an ad _______________ recently, billboards with photos of employees talking
_________ why they like the company. Anchalee was in one of those ads, wearing a black T-shirt
and glasses with brown hair _______ to her shoulders.
ANCHALEE:
My _____________ was that my team is great. Everyone is smart, creative and hilarious.
SANDERS:
Pretty ______________, right?
ANCHALEE:
Well, I had friends that were sending me __________________ of their friends taking pictures of
the ad and having their own discussions _____________ it.
SANDERS:
Anchalee says some of those discussions were not that nice.
ANCHALEE:
Guys were like, I wonder what people with brains think about how plausible this _____________ is,
that this is what female engineers would look _____________.
SANDERS:

Another guy said the campaign should have ____________ a woman with a warm smile instead of
what he calls Anchalee's sexy smirk. The sentiment was that Anchalee was too pretty to be an
engineer. In response, she wrote an ______________ on Medium about sexism that plagues the
tech industry. And Anchalee asked other engineers to start sharing their photos with the hashtag
#ILookLikeAnEngineer. It took ________.
ANCHALEE:
This is absolutely _______________ me away. It's been tweeted by NASA, General Electric.

SANDERS:
Women engineers from MIT to Disney ____________ their photos. But that's just Twitter. I took
Anchalee's photo to another tech __________, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington,
D.C.
I want you to look at this photo...
ERIN SAVASTIO:
OK.
SANDERS:
...And tell me what kind of job you think she does. Erin Savastio got __________ close.
SAVASTIO:
Well, I __________ to go with stereotypes, but I'm going to say somewhere in the math and
science field, maybe an artist, though.
SANDERS:
Katie and Michael Reed went in another direction.
KATIE REED:
A teacher, librarian?
MICHAEL REED:
A ____________________, just somebody who works in service.
SANDERS:
When I told them Anchalee is an engineer and mentioned the campaign, the Reeds said that's a
good thing. Katie says her young daughter, who was sitting right next to her, _____________
someday be an engineer as well. Sam Sanders, NPR News.

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