![]() ![]() ![]() Last week's A-Level results show only 245 girls took A-Level computing this year, compared with 5,153 who took Spanish. This prejudice has grown worse over the past two decades. ![]() Without realising it, I was a victim of a gender stereotype reinforced since birth, that men do science and maths and women do arts or languages. Trust me, I know a thing about time-wasting. The next three or four years of your life may be romantic, inspiring and entertaining, but you are still wasting your time. If you are studying for a degree in arts or languages, you are probably wasting your time, too. I saw myself as an accomplished novelist or an interpreter for the EU. My teachers recommended that I study economics and statistics as my A-level subjects, but I had my mind set on a life fulfilled by the arts. My degree in French and Spanish – despite being a decent grade from a good university – is not worth the paper it's written on.Īt school, I was in the top set for maths. I spent a semester learning about Spanish chivalric literature, wrote a dissertation about surrealist images, fell in love with the poetry of Federico García Lorca and, in short, wasted four years of my life. ![]()
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