Not to be ranty but like….I’m so sick of rom coms where the main female characters are in the arts and the main male characters are in STEM. I’m so bored of that narrative like are we done is it over…..when Ivy said she didn’t know what an algorithm was I wanted to pass out. When Mel tried to get a man by “looking intellectual” outside the engineering building, come on. It’s insulting—and makes the feminist tones of the book hollow with no follow through. Just once can we get a contemporary book with a woman in STEM and a man in the arts? STEM isn’t inherently masculine, and the arts are not inherently feminine. As a woman in STEM myself it’s this exact line of thinking that impacts my day to day life. 

This is not to bash women who choose not to be in STEM, that is their choice. I just wish that there were more female book characters like me.