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- From: isjl@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (Jason Liuzza)
- Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.012735.14992@cs.tulane.edu>
- Followup-To: Julie's commentary
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- In article <1993Jan8.165828.1@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov> cj4@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov (Julie Choate Moore) writes:
- >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.
-
- As interesting as this thread is, would it not be more appropriately placed in say alt.soc.feminism?
-
- Just a thought....Jason
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