Check out these brilliant and empowering hashtags inspired by #ILookLikeAnEngineer
Earlier this month Isis Wenger, a platform engineer at OneLogin Inc., created the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer to celebrate the women engineers who stray from obsolete yet persistent stereotypes perfectly portrayed by the cast of HBO’s Silicon Valley.
With hundreds of selfies uploaded in the name of #ILookLikeAnEngineer, it’s safe to say the hashtag has become a movement in itself—but even better, it’s now sparked spinoff hashtags, celebrating women and diversity in other STEM fields. Because, apparently, despite the fact that it’s 2015, people still expect scientists to look like a Revenge of the Nerds-era Robert Carradine wearing an American Apparel hoodie—or better yet, Professor Frink from The Simpsons.
The world of surgery is notoriously male-dominated, which is why #ILookLikeAnEngineer’s followup #ILookLikeASurgeon is so important. Women surgeons have been posting a wide variety of pictures, from scrub-clad selfies to family portraits, promoting the fact that surgeons don’t fit a particular mold. They can be goofballs, they can be athletes, they can be mothers.
But the spinoffs don’t end there!