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Women and maths: “I’ve gained so much confidence and resilience by going into this subject.”
Government social mobility adviser and secondary school headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh recently caused a stir by suggesting that girls choose not to do physics at A-level because “There’s a lot of hard maths in there…” Here, three of our consultants share a very different outlook on science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM).