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Do you think women are fully supported to pursue an engineer career?

If not - tell us how you think they should be in the comments below

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  • I think the answer is a guarded yes. There has been an effort for at least 5 decades to increase the number of women in engineering - largely unsuccessful.

    There are enormous barriers to entry for most of the population and there are a host of other factors that also dictate who ends up in engineering.

    The question of support doesn't seem to a big factor that explains the gender ratios in engineering. How these ratios originally came to be is an interesting study, but now that they are present, it is pretty easy to see how they perpetuate and how they will continue to perpetuate even if support is increased. Traditional methods have not been good at changing the status quo. Maybe a fancy social media campaign will have better success.

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  • I think the answer is a guarded yes. There has been an effort for at least 5 decades to increase the number of women in engineering - largely unsuccessful.

    There are enormous barriers to entry for most of the population and there are a host of other factors that also dictate who ends up in engineering.

    The question of support doesn't seem to a big factor that explains the gender ratios in engineering. How these ratios originally came to be is an interesting study, but now that they are present, it is pretty easy to see how they perpetuate and how they will continue to perpetuate even if support is increased. Traditional methods have not been good at changing the status quo. Maybe a fancy social media campaign will have better success.

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