Clinton lamented that girls often lose interest in the sciences as they grow older. Clinton: Girls need STEM role models

Chelsea Clinton is calling on Hollywood to promote more smart and sexy female characters.

“We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers,” Clinton said in an interview aired Friday on CNN.


Clinton lamented statistics that show girls lose interest in the sciences as they grow older.

“I think [girls are] not seeing role models — they’re seeing boys who are astronauts, boys who are engineers, they’re seeing boys who start Facebook or Google, they’re not seeing girls, its really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don’t see, particularly when you’re a kid,” Clinton said.

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Clinton credited the strong female role models in her life, especially her grandmother Dorothy Rodham and mother, Hillary Clinton.

“[My grandmother] put a lot of positive pressure on me to do more, and particularity after her passing I felt like I did need to be doing more,” Clinton said. “We had a responsibility gene she said, particularity the girls in our family.”

Her family’s foundation is supporting a social action campaign that produced the film “Girl Rising,” a film about girls’ education that will be airing on CNN Sunday evening.