Welsh TV personality Carol Vorderman has come out in support of 'geek girls' after she posted to Instagram championing her daughter and her successes.
Carol spent the weekend in Cambridge with her daughter, Katie, who has just finished her Ph.D. in nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge.
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Katie is following in Carol's footsteps as Carol attended the University of Cambridge in 1978, going a year early aged just 17, to study engineering, and in the third year that the previously all-male colleges started to take on women.
Talking about her daughter Carol sweetly said: "Both of us are science based...geek girls...we fly planes and get excited about engines and molecules and are forever curious."
The 60-year-old presenter also labelled the media's representation of "geek girls" as b***ocks, she said: "Media portrays geek girls very very very badly, like we're an entirely different breed of woman who are incapable of the other things."
She went on to say: "I'm calling b***ocks on that. Apologies. I'm calling B***OCKS on that. Should have written it in capitals."
The TV star also called the media representation of geek girls "belittling" and said that being smart does not stop you from being a woman.
"That portrayal is yet another way of belittling women and saying "you can't have a brain and be properly female"...and God help you if you make money from it too!!! Lord above, it shouldn't be allowed!!".
Carol finished the post by saying: "Go geek girls...go ALL girls....you all have value" followed by red love heart emojis.
During the post Carol also spoke about her background of growing up in Prestatyn and attending a comprehensive school while on free school meals before going to Cambridge.
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