Science - It's a Girl Thing

I ran across a short promo video today called, Science - It's a Girl Thing.  It was  produced by the European Commission to encourage more young girls to choose science careers. What it surely has done is stir up a hornet's nest of controversy.

Here is the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA

It's a music video.  It implies that science is a logical landing place for hot girls, showing off.

Wouldn't it have been more effective to just showcase some some real female scientists talking about what excites them about their work?  Though men do substantilely outnumber women in science,  there are still many extraordinary women doing science right now that surely would inspire young girls.

Jane Goodall is the most influential primate researcher in the world. Astronomer, Jill Tarter was a principle instigator for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. For  more than two decades, Tarter has led the SETI project, the world's most assertive effort to find life in other places in the universe.  She inspired an impressive growth in the number of female astronomers and cosmologists working around the world at the highest levels of the science

Here is one young scientist, astronomer, Megan Gray, commenting on 'Science - It's a Girl Thing.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3eZQHwGQE0