This article from St. Louis Today
talks about a camp aimed at teaching girls science in the 9th and 10th grade. It's been well documented that girls and boys do equally well at math and science until about this age. For some reason, then girls drop significantly.
In video I've seen this phenomenon as well. It still surprises me that I am one of only a handful of female camera operators. After all, composing good shots and pushing buttons is not a uniquely male or female skill. But there's something about filmmaking that seems to make people think it's too technologically challenging (or geeky) for girls.
Funnily enough, when girls meet me and see me with the camera, a lot of this fear seems to melt away.
What about you? Do you see girls shying away from the behind the camera jobs? What about working with computers and post-production? And if you do see this phenomenon when teaching 'the science of moviemaking' what do you do about it?
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