.png)
Girls in STEM provides a communication and cooperation platform for girls majoring in STEM. Our club organizes monthly forums regularly, with different majors as the theme each time, to encourage girls in and out of school to participate in the study of STEM majors and to provide them with opportunities to exchange and learn with big names in the professional field.
At noon on December 10, 2022, we were honored to invite two guests to our first forum event. The first guest is Professor Wu Xiaoshu, a Bachelor of Beijing Normal University, Ph.D. of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, currently an associate professor at the Department of Space and Planetary Science, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, a researcher of the Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a major in planetary physics of the Chinese Geophysical Society committee members. She is engaged in research in the field of planetary science and has achieved a series of original results in frontier directions such as planetary atmosphere photoelectron distribution and ion chemistry. The second guest is Ms. Li Conghong, who graduated from Nanhua University in 1992 with a major in nuclear electronics and nuclear technology. She is a senior engineer and is currently a specialist in the automatic control of the Lanxi Power Plant.
In the forum, the students asked questions, and the two guests also gave corresponding replies. Here are some of the students' questions:
Ms. Li, as a specialist in automatic control of Lanxi Power Plant in Zhejiang Province, mainly divides her daily work into three parts: first, to guide everyone to deal with some defects; second, to carry out some transformations on equipment; third, to help accident repairs. The emergency repair of accidents is where she feels the most pressure: sometimes she has to rush to the scene as soon as she receives a call, with the supervision of the leader beside her. Under the double pressure, the repair process became very difficult.
Unlike Ms. Li, Prof. Wu summed up her daily work and used the word "cyclical" to describe it. During working hours, Prof. Wu usually gives lectures on the school's strict procedures and then cooperates with school activities during holidays. During this time of life, Prof. Wu also takes care of her children according to her life schedule. Whether it is picking up the children in the morning, noon or evening, or returning home at night, the two are busy separately. During conflicts, communication, and sports, Prof. Wu still feels very fulfilled.
Ms. Li said that it seems that such a situation has not been encountered so far. In the project, there is a lot of dirty work that is usually done by boys themselves, but this brings the disadvantage of few promotion opportunities. Then, Ms. Li said that to study engineering, in the workplace, you need to be an all-around person and focus on what you do. Ms. Li also mentioned that during her pregnancy, she had to give up this opportunity to learn new equipment because she kept wanting to sleep and the company followed the persuasion of the law. However, "discrimination" doesn't mean it's unfair, or that our efforts won't be seen. In fact, because of the influence of the times, the trend is getting better.
Professor Wu mentioned that he had indeed been discriminated against because he was a woman. As a single mother, Professor Wu needs to take care of her children, and this does involve her energy to a certain extent. Sometimes long-term work that may be able to achieve results will not consider you first. Because things like childbirth and having children can take people out of the context of their work at the time, it can lead to reduced ability and sensitivity to information when they return.
Girls in STEM社团致力于为STEM专业的女生提供交流与合作平台。我社专门定期组织每月论坛，以不同专业作为每次主题，鼓励校内校外的女生参与学习STEM专业，并给她们提供和专业领域大咖交流学习的机会。
2022年12月10的中午，我们就有幸邀请到了两位嘉宾做客我们首次的论坛活动。第一位嘉宾是吴晓姝教授，北京师范大学学士，中国科学院大学博士，现为中山大学大气科学学院空间与行星科学系副教授，中国科学院比较行星学卓越创新中心青年研究员，中国地球物理学会行星物理专业委员会委员等。她从事行星科学领域的研究，在行星大气光电子分布、离子化学等前沿方向取得了一系列原创性成果。第二位嘉宾是李丛红女士，1992年毕业于南华大学核电子与核技术专业，高级工程师，目前是兰溪发电厂自动控制专业的专工。
在论坛上，同学们积极提问，两位嘉宾们也给出了相应的回复。下面列举了一些同学的问题：
李丛红老师作为浙江省兰溪发电厂自动控制专业的专工，日常工作主要分为三部分：一，指导大家去处理一些缺陷；二，在设备上进行一些改造；三，就是帮助事故抢修。而事故抢修则是她觉得压力最大之处：有些时候她一接到电话，就要赶往现场，旁边还有领导的监督。双重压力之下，抢修过程变得非常艰难。
不同于李老师，吴晓姝老师总结自己的日常工作，用了“具有周期性”一词形容。工作时段，吴老师一般是按照学校严格的流程进行讲课，然后在假期配合学校的活动。在生活时段，吴老师也按照自己的生活时刻表照顾自己的孩子，无论是早中晚接送孩子，还是晚上回到家后二人各自忙碌，在冲突和沟通交流、运动中，吴老师依旧感觉过得很充实。
老师说道，目前好像并没有遇到过这样的情况。在工程中，有很多脏活累活一般都会有男孩子自己提出完成，但随之带来了提升机会少的弊端。接着，李老师说到学工程，在职场上，需要成为一个全能的人，要专注于你自己怎么做的。李老师也谈到，在自己怀孕过程中，因为一直想睡觉和公司方面依从法律的劝导，她不得不放弃这一学习新设备的机会。但“歧视”并不意味着不公平，也不意味着我们努力之后不会被看到。现在其实因为时代的影响，趋势也在变好。
吴教授则提到，自己确实因为是女性受到过歧视。吴教授作为单亲家庭，需要照顾自己的孩子，而这确实一定程度上牵扯了自己的精力。有时候长时间段的且或许能做出成绩的工作，就不会先考虑到你。因为生育和带娃等这些事情会将人脱离当时的工作背景，这样会导致回归之后，能力和对于信息的敏感度下降。
