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

I think many/most people (i.e. women and men) want a fulfilling, exciting career that pays well. There's no reason engineering cannot provide that.

I was interested in reports too, but am disillusioned by them; some of the theories of women not finding it interesting due to innate differences between sexes don't make sense, because careers in engineering are diverse - you don't need to touch a soldering iron if you don't want to, to be an engineer - so there will be something exciting with good pay for everyone if we wanted to provide that.

We have failed to make engineering a better place for the few women there are doing it today... Pay is lower, we accept our customers or sales teams saying crude stuff about women's looks behind their backs (it definitely happens), we don't help as much as we could from time to time (in the excuse that we're exercising 'equality' and 'she' should learn it herself), we'll politely ignore input from female engineers and think we're smart enough that they won't notice, we'll ignore them in conversations when we get excited about a new bit of hardware in the office, we'll gossip in the office how one male is going out with a female cleaner as if that's a thing beneath real men (I heard such gossip when I was doing an intern-like job at one place and I didn't have the confidence to challenge it), we'll use business trips to stare at waitresses even if we're married (to be clear, I don't do this..), and on that 'equality' theme, deliberately forget our manners and not even offer a seat to a female and stay seated at out-of-work events when that's just impolite. That's a summary of a few things I've seen.. and I believe it's not the worst possible, I've worked in the environments generally considered better than normal over the years.

EDIT:  There's a story this topic reminds me of... called 'Mr Midshipman Easy' - it's about a boy who becomes a young man, and it's ingrained in him from his father that equality is everything, which leads him to some very illogical conclusions because he misapplies it (he thinks fruit in a field belongs equally to him as to any other person, even though it is not his land). And he's spoiled rotten.

Anyway, it takes the rest of his life to improve himself (he does improve himself). Really nice story. Summary of it here, but it reveals the ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Midshipman_Easy

I think many/most people (i.e. women and men) want a fulfilling, exciting career that pays well. There's no reason engineering cannot provide that.

I was interested in reports too, but am disillusioned by them; some of the theories of women not finding it interesting due to innate differences between sexes don't make sense, because careers in engineering are diverse - you don't need to touch a soldering iron if you don't want to, to be an engineer - so there will be something exciting with good pay for everyone if we wanted to provide that.

We have failed to make engineering a better place for the few women there are doing it today... Pay is lower, we accept our customers or sales teams saying crude stuff about women's looks behind their backs (it definitely happens), we don't help as much as we could from time to time (in the excuse that we're exercising 'equality' and 'she' should learn it herself), we'll politely ignore input from female engineers and think we're smart enough that they won't notice, we'll ignore them in conversations when we get excited about a new bit of hardware in the office, we'll gossip in the office how one male is going out with a female cleaner as if that's a thing beneath real men (I heard such gossip when I was doing an intern-like job at one place and I didn't have the confidence to challenge it), we'll use business trips to stare at waitresses even if we're married (to be clear, I don't do this..), and on that 'equality' theme, deliberately forget our manners and not even offer a seat to a female and stay seated at out-of-work events when that's just impolite. That's a summary of a few things I've seen.. and I believe it's not the worst possible, I've worked in the environments generally considered better than normal over the years.

EDIT:  There's a story this topic reminds me of... called 'Mr Midshipman Easy' - it's about a boy who becomes a young man, and it's ingrained in him from his father that equality is everything, which leads him to some very illogical conclusions because he misapplies it (he thinks fruit in a field belongs equally to him as to any other person, even though it is not his land). And he's spoiled rotten.

Anyway, it takes the rest of his life to improve himself (he does improve himself). Really nice story. Summary of it here, but it reveals the ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Midshipman_Easy