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- From: dnl@convex.is.macsch.com (David Lombard)
- Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
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- Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:19:40 GMT
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- I agree that most women who persue engineering do it because they
- truly want to! There certainly are societal factors, another is
- the dearth of women classmates (perhaps only in smaller schools?).
- My wife (ME '88) has taken (and continues to take in her MSME at
- CSULB) some courses as the only woman. She has also told me about infantile
- instructors (men too suffer such fools, but women will sometimes
- have a harder time), infantile classmates, etc. In her current
- employment (SoCal Aerospace), men greatly outnumber women, so she continues
- to suffer a lack of women coworkers.
-
- As an engineer by degree (Naval Arch. '79, no women engineering graduates),
- I can vouch for much of this. I will also comment that CS (my current
- profession) does not suffer nearly as much from the above. There will
- _always_ be infantile instructors, students, and employees - but that's life.
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- Regards,
- DNL
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- MY_COMMENTS, MY_OPINIONS, NOBODY_ELSES.
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- David N. Lombard The first thing we do, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp
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