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Engineering, it's not just for boys

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Workshopshed over 11 years ago

Those who following companies like Adafruit will already know that some of the best engineers are women but a lot of young people don't realise that they don't actually have to conform the the gender stereo types pushed on them by adults.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 11 years ago

    Hehe. Maybe even basic tools are unused by many people - male and female. Blu-tack is the modern replacement for nail and hammer ; (

    As for the difference between Pozidrive and Philips, they are unnoticed subtleties : )

    </end of stereotyping non-engineers on a friday>

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    mcb1 over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz
    As for the difference between Pozidrive and Philips, they are unnoticed subtleties : )

    AND it's not just non-engineers making that mistake.

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    mcb1 over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz
    As for the difference between Pozidrive and Philips, they are unnoticed subtleties : )

    AND it's not just non-engineers making that mistake.

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