Fully supported? Definitely not. This is not just an engineering issue. Across the board, women have to work harder to enlist support from advisers, managers, and peers to take them as seriously as men are. It hasn't changed much from when I started as a professional software engineer in 1969. While progress has been made, we are still a long ways from equal opportunity working environments. Couple that with with the still prevalent sexual harassment that occurs and you still have a fairly bleak picture for women.
Don't believe me? Ask your female colleagues outside of work.
Fully supported? Definitely not. This is not just an engineering issue. Across the board, women have to work harder to enlist support from advisers, managers, and peers to take them as seriously as men are. It hasn't changed much from when I started as a professional software engineer in 1969. While progress has been made, we are still a long ways from equal opportunity working environments. Couple that with with the still prevalent sexual harassment that occurs and you still have a fairly bleak picture for women.
Don't believe me? Ask your female colleagues outside of work.
I believe it. Also, I bet many men have either seen or have ourselves held women back or treated them badly in the engineering world, whether it was major or minor - all the minor ones add up when others do it too.
The ones that haven't seen it, should give it more thought. As in to (badly) paraphrase from 'To Kill a Mockingbird', you don't know what someone has gone through until you try to step in other's shoes.
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