

Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy
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Formative Move To Racist Environment
- Angela Saini recounts moving from a multicultural East London to a predominantly white area at age ten and facing racist violence and marches.
- That experience pushed her into anti-racist activism and set her on the path to journalism.
Blending In As The Only Woman
- Angela describes being one of few girls in engineering and feeling she must blend in to avoid attention.
- She changed clothing and appearance to be less visible in STEM classrooms.
Switching From Engineering To Journalism
- Angela explains she shifted from engineering to journalism after student activism and writing for the student paper.
- An internship careers advisor encouraged her to try journalism since she had a marketable engineering fallback.