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- From: jbibb@eng.auburn.edu (John S. Bibb)
- Subject: Re: What % of engineers are women?
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:01:35 GMT
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- It is interesting to point out that while there are so few women in the engineering
- field, the same can not be said for engineering honor societies. I am a chapter
- advisor for Tau Beta Pi here at Auburn, and have gone to the last 3 conventions.
- I noticed that while the ratio of women to men was low as a general rule through out
- the college, the honor societies had a much higher ratio. Roughly speaking, Alabama
- Alpha of Tau Beta Pi is about 35-40% women as opposed to under 15% college wide.
- The same trend can be seen at the national conventions. Roughly 45-50% of the
- delagates were women, as are a large number of district directors and national
- officers.
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- My point: It seems as though bringing women into engineering has only attracted those
- with a genuine desire to become engineers, not just people who chose engineering
- because "My father is a mechanical engineer, his father was a mechanical engineer..."
- Although women are a minority in number in the engineering field, they are a valued
- minority to the profession.
-
- J. Bibb
- Integrity and Excellence in Engineering.
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