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A boy meets girl meets stats story

A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented.

Veronica Carlin is a data scientist who loves romantic comedies.

But she had a hunch about those movies, that there aren’t many women like her, women in STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths – taking the lead roles.

So she set out on a maths quest to find out what’s what.

Presenter: Kate Lamble
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot

(Picture: A young couple with a heart-shaped balloon on the street
Credit: Cultura RM Exclusive/Spark Photographic / Getty)

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Mon 27 Nov 202300:50GMT
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