{"id":38382,"date":"2024-03-10T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T02:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38382"},"modified":"2024-03-10T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T02:29:47","slug":"review-of-changing-the-equation-by-tonya-bolden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38382","title":{"rendered":"Review of Changing the Equation, by Tonya Bolden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Changing the Equation<\/p>\n

50+ US Black Women in STEM<\/em><\/p>\n

by Tonya Bolden<\/p>\n

Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020. 202 pages.
\nReview written September 14, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n

I was a math major in college, and got a Master\u2019s degree in Pure Mathematics shortly after getting my Bachelor\u2019s degree. There were very few other women in my program (5 of us out of 120 new grad students at UCLA), and I don\u2019t remember any African Americans, let alone African American women.<\/p>\n

Young people dream about what they can imagine themselves doing. So I love that this book exists, kick starting dreams of young black girls by showing pictures and telling stories about black women engaged in careers and doing important work in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These women have won significant awards and achievements.<\/p>\n

Each of these women gets a short biography, photos, and an explanation of why their work is significant. Though the book does cover pioneers \u2013 beginning with Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler, the first US black woman to earn a medical degree in 1864 \u2013 the majority of the women profiled are still working today.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a wide range of fields of work, so a young person may well find an example that inspires them, from doctors and nurses through yes, mathematicians, but also videogame designers, mechanics, pharmacists, chemical engineers, aerospace engineers, computer scientists, and so much more.<\/p>\n

At the back of the book, we do learn that black women still only earn 1 percent of engineering degrees in America. But I love this response:<\/p>\n

Dr. Crumpler, not one to despair, would no doubt respond to such stats by rallying twenty-first-century US black girls to get busy changing the equations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

tonyaboldenbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n

Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Changing the Equation 50+ US Black Women in STEM by Tonya Bolden Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020. 202 pages. Review written September 14, 2020, from a library book I was a math major in college, and got a Master\u2019s degree in Pure Mathematics shortly after getting my Bachelor\u2019s degree. There were very few other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43439,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38382\/revisions\/43439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}