These women are using Instagram to celebrate unsung women in science

Dr Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin to travel into space, in 1997. | Nina Chhita They had tried to engage with the people leaving negative comments on their Instagram posts, but Bia Kazmi, a business and data analyst and co-founder of the Instagram page How 2 Rob a Bank, did not expect their profile would be deactivated after people had reported it.Their crime? Being women who encourage people to use maths in their daily life.Even within a seemingly neutral subject such as maths, gender bias can cause serious problems to women trying to make a difference, it turns out.Kazmi says they founded the page simply to encourage people to use maths in an everyday way. “We don’t post many things that suggest we are women, and a lot of our followers just assume we are men – unless they really look for excerpts from our podcast, where you can hear our voices.”Kazmi and her friend Zoey Luu chose the name How 2 Rob a Bank because they wanted a fun title to let people know that maths can be fun too, and isn’t just about trigonometry and algebra.After they posted the solution to a particularly difficult mathematical…
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