At the end of a panel discussion at the Center for Inquiry back in 2009, an audience member asked a loaded question about whether genetics have anything to do with the disparity between men and women in the sciences.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was brave enough to broach the topic and answered it with a comparison. Instead of discussing women in science specifically, he addressed the topic African Americans in science, sharing his own story of having become an astrophysicist and why so few others follow a similar path…
(The video is an hour long, but only the relevant few minutes will play.)
(via Upworthy)