More heroines should be awesome at this…

I came across this infographic which caught my attention because it begins with the statement Girls Are Smarter Than Boys. But of course! As you’ll see, it’s about girls and math–no don’t go!–and how a little more confidence in our abilities would mean more girls majoring in math and sciences, and thus more women building the world to suit our needs (why are kitchen cabinets always so high?!).

But this really resonated because I always thought of myself as a Word Person, and because of that I never thought of myself as a math/science person which meant there were entire careers I never imagined possible. Combined with the excuse of “oh, all the women in my family are bad at math/we’re Word People,” I started out assuming I was at a disadvantage. Which is stupid–imagine if I had looked at a math problem and just assumed I was completely capable of figuring it out!  But the thing was, I was also a Good Student and I brought home A’s and B’s in math, physics, chemistry, biology…Oh, I had to work for those good grades because it didn’t just come as intuitively to me as history or literature. But the fact remains that I was actually ok at math and science, especially with a little effort.

Anyway, all of this got me thinking about romance heroines who are really keen on math or science. I can think of one: Lydia Craven in Where’s My Hero? by Lisa Kleypas. Can you name other scientifically inclined or math minded heroines? 

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Anyway, all of this got me thinking about romance heroines who are really keen on math or science. I can think of one: Lydia Craven in Where’s My Hero? by Lisa Kleypas. Can you name other scientifically inclined or math minded heroines?