‘Men control the room’: Navigating labs and bias as a girl in STEM

‘Men control the room’: Navigating labs and bias as a girl in STEM

By, Amelia Edwards, Fourth year, English and French As an English and French student at Bristol University, lecture halls are a sea of creative, book-loving, and mostly female students, just like me. However, girls enrolled in STEM courses often face a remarkably different reality.Emma Flores studies biochemistry at Bristol, a subject often perceived as more rigorous — and more male-coded — than the humanities. When asked if men outnumber women …