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Girls Coming to Tech
Bix reaches out
with tales of the
history of women
anD technology

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Dr. Amy Sue Bix, associate professor at Iowa
State University's (ISU's) History Department,
wrote what has been called "the most comprehensive and thorough book on the history
of women coming into technology ever," with
her book Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of
American Engineering Education for Women.
Officially a historian, Bix specializes in the history of technology and women's history, and this
book is at the place where they intersect. It not
only tells women's stories but connects them
with social implications that women have had
to endure.

From STEM Student to STEM Educator
When Bix entered college at Princeton University, she hoped to major in what was then
called "Soviet studies." But first year Russianlanguage classes were very difficult, and she
found that she wasn't good with languages.
She had grown up seeing programs like Wild
Kingdom and other shows of animals chasing
each other and didn't know that it was possible
to study such a fun subject in college. When
she saw the Biology Department offered animal behavior classes, she pursued biology as
her backup major. By the end of her senior
year, after immersing herself in literature
about Darwin for her senior thesis, she became
increasingly fascinated by the social context of
scientific work. Bix says, "I had to decide if I
wanted to work with squirrels or humans. The
humans won."

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