More Women Choosing Engineering (but not as a profession)
Mon 22 Jan 2007 – 11.20
I think the title says it all. According to a study of some bullshit, by the people who study things, more women are earning degrees in engineering, but the profession remains largely male-only.
I found this interesting as a Engineering Degree-holder-but-non-practicer. I observed that over the course of my university years, the ratio of men to women in my classes leveled out some, leading me to conclude that it’s on the men who drop out. There was a similar article posted back in July.
One positive by-product of the increased number of female engineering students is that we can finally have enough of a population to choose from, allowing a few geeky-and-entrepreneurial students to put together the Girls of Engineering photo calendar. I chuckled when I saw this because most of the girls I went to school with were, shall we say, average. This brings to mind a funny quote when Chris O’Brien remarked, about Kate Allen, who I sort of had a crush on at one point, “She’s pretty good-looking for an engineer”. Ouch.
posted by Scott in careers, education.
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