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- From: cj4@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov (Julie Choate Moore)
- Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
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- In article <GERRY.93Jan4134818@alfalfa.cmu.edu>, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- > Hopefully, this won't cause too much of a flame war, but...
- >
- > In my years as an engineer (both practicing and studying), I have
- > notice that there are more women in Chem E and ECE than in Mech E. I
- > must assume that this is due to social conditioning; which does not
- > motivate women to engage in activities that promote spatial relations.
- > The women I know in Mech E are predominantly in thermo and related
- > areas and not in mechanisms. So, asking Mech E about the percentage
- > of women in engineering will probably result in estimates that are a
- > little on the low side.
- >
- Speaking as a Mech E who did *awful* in thermo, but pretty well in mechanicms,
- stress analysis, etc, I'd definitely agree with the "social conditioning"
- statement. I am the daughter of an Elec. Engr., and was brought up in an
- environment that encouraged spatial relation type things--he liked to work
- on his '65 Barracuda, *I* like(d) (still do) to work on cars. Most women/girls
- just don't have that environment growing up. I'm glad I did!
-
- Speaking also for the class of '84, we had only 2 or 3 (or so) women outa 100
- (or so) (see, I can't remember the exacts, either! :-)) of Mech Engrs at the
- Univ. of TN.
-
- For the orig. poster, I'd try calling some local colleges or perhaps the Engr
- societies to get an idea of the numbers of us women folk in engineering these
- days.
-
- As for the "typical male" statements made on this thread, I don't see why you
- guys would *want* women in your classes--most women who enter engineering are
- sooooo smart that they blow the typical male minds away (ref. post on high
- percentage of women in engr honor societies) and what male likes to be put in
- his place by a smarter woman? (Start your flamethrowers...) BTW, I *wasn't*
- one of those curve busters! (remember, I said, "*most* women who enter
- engineering...)
-
- Julie Moore
- cj4@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
- My opinions.
-