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- From: schenn@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Lisa Henn)
- Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
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- In article <1hqd6oINN8od@mozz.unh.edu>, sdf@kepler.unh.edu (Scott D Foster) writes...
-
- > I guess that if there were
- >more then we would never get anything done (typical male response).
-
- Yup!
-
- I find that whenever I ask a female engineer this question, she says, "Oh,
- there were about x% in my graduating class". But if I ask a male engineer,
- he knows the exact percentage to three significant figures or the exact
- ratio (e.g. 11 of 53 in the class, or 20.6%)
-
- A (male) classmate asked me one time if I thought male students or male
- professors were more receptive (as groups) to women engineers. I told him
- that I thought the male students were for two reasons: 1) A significant
- percentage of the (tenured) male professors were old enough to have gone to
- school before _any_ women went to engineering school (my undergrad alma
- mater graduated its first female (chemical) engineer in 1972) and so such
- a concept was still a little bit unusual for them. 2) The male students
- tended to be of the demeanor of "WOMEN!! We need WOMEN!! In the CLASSES!
- Right now!!", so they were always happy to have women engineers among them.
-
- >Oh well.
-
- Indeed.
-
- Incidently, out of my undergrad department (Mechanical) there were about 12%
- women graduating in my year, 1989. School of Engineering-wide, it was about
- 15% that year. Computer Science and Chemical Engineering were above this
- figure, with Mechanical and Electrical being below (from what I remember;
- a male alumnus would probably know better!).
-
-
- L
- Lisa Henn
- Analex Corporation
- schenn@e4310h01.lerc.nasa.gov
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- Disclaimer: These are my opinions. There are many others like them, but
- these are mine.
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