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Girls studying robotics and C++ are used to being in a tiny minority. And for some, that’s not the friendliest feeling. “It’s like, ‘OMG, a girl is in our fort,'” says one girl, describing the attitude of male classmates.
After Colorado’s teen birth rate marked a steep decline tied to the IUD, you’d expect teens across the country to be talking about the pros and cons of this particular method. Instead, few teens at this school have even heard of it.
“All of these people agreed that women should have equal rights to men, but they weren’t willing to identify themselves as a part of that movement,” says the editor in chief of a school paper that found students to be warmer to the idea of gender equality than feminism.
The star pitcher’s success in August is earning her a place in baseball’s Hall of Fame for good reason. The pressures on girls to give up baseball around age 12 are major league. “I’d rather not be the odd-person-out on an all boys team,” says one softball player.