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This is a man's world,but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman

All my life I've been compared to my brother and since I remember this has been a problem in my anxiety. Anyway, this way of living made that I developed an interest in the STEM areas.  In this case, I felt that's many fragments in the reading became part of my everyday thoughts.

In this case, what we can remember about history is that it is been told by the winners or the people in power,  and normally in a patriarchal way of living sometimes women get erased in this story. That was the case of many women in many different areas, companies, and countries. Anyway, they have been moments in history that women had to take some jobs even though they were not prepared for them (or society).  That' was the case of many well-known programmers and generations of women who had to work in these areas. I consider that  this  is also seen in a country that had participated actively in  the development  of new technology and  in some specific moment in history. 

 I think that the reading has a big problem due to the fact that it is located in powerful contries that  have an easy way on developing  the need of females in the industry and in some specific universities. This is because I consider that Mexico has the problem that people cannot access technology as easy as people in the States or in  UK and so women in this country have to fight the stereotype of being a woman in a man's area due to the fact that woman belong in the Kitchen or cannot do math. This is seen in the quantity of women in the STEM areas in Mexico, but they are well seen in areas such as chemistry and medicine where there are some strong  examples of women who succeed in this areas and are well developed in Mexico. Also this is being made due to the fact that we believe that people who work with computers are lonely and do not have friends, but teorically this area has three mayor areas where you can develop: developing, sales and project management but people do not understand this.

I consider that I had an advantage during my childhood due to the fact that I have a brother who likes technology and videogames, so that interest in my life has been something consistent and has helped me to persue a career I like and something I have abilities. And also I am thankful to my mother because she has always been pushing me to the next level  and not to feel less in comparison to my classmates. 

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