Girls face ‘amazing range of career options’

Girls can easily mix fame and an exciting job if they want, TV doctor Pixie McKenna said yesterday.

She was one of the role models giving advice at the IWish event at Cork City Hall, where more than 1,000 teenage girls got many different slants on careers open to them in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

Best known for the Embarrassing Bodies programme on Channel 4, Cork-born Dr McKenna said it is sad girls are not turning to science despite all the amazing opportunities.