When space shuttle Discovery blasts off Tuesday, a woman will be sitting in the commander’s seat. And up at the international space station, a female skipper will be waiting to greet her. It will be the first time in the 50-year history of spaceflight that two women are in charge of two spacecraft at the same time. Sure women have been in space plenty of times, but being in charge has been a different story.
That’s kind of a big deal I have to say. Even today in the year 2007 women fall victim to stereotypes and get pushed down the ladder far too often just for being female, likewise sometimes they are pushed too far up the ladder too soon just because a company is afraid they might be discriminating. We just can’t win. Life is difficult. Why? For no good reason. LOL
I love it when I see women in what are typically considered “men’s jobs” fixing car spoilers, tearing apart gadgets, building computers, and flying in space.
