'As a black woman in STEM I'm used for photo opportunities' - BBC News - 0 views
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Ms Chapple, then a chemistry researcher at a US university, didn't work with his team directly and had minimal interactions with them personally
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She looked around her: the research team were all white men, and she was the only black woman in the photo.
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Cynthia's school, her extended family and all her friends were just five minutes away and evenings were spent exploring the neighbourhood.
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"I was the only black girl in those clubs," she recalls. "There weren't really a lot of activities around STEM that you could do in my neighbourhood. So, I found myself sort of leaving my south side community and going elsewhere - to get exposure to certain activities."
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Researchers say that the 'leaky pipeline' refers to women, and particularly women of colour, facing many barriers and obstacles to advancing further in their fields, from childcare obligations to fewer promotion opportunities.
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Cynthia had an idea whilst doing her masters in 2015, that she would create a club to pull more women like her in to the world of science. By 2018, Black Girls Do STEM became an after-school community in St Louis, Missouri - where she now lives