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

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  • makerkaren
    makerkaren over 6 years ago +13
    As much as institutions try their darnedest to promote more women in engineering fields, there are deeper problems that keeps them out. One, women are not often exposed to engineering as a career option…
  • dubbie
    dubbie over 6 years ago +12
    I wanted to answer Yes and No to this question. I was a lecturer for 35 years in engineering (or Electronics as I like to call it) and myself, all my colleagues and my University had no problem with female…
  • koudelad
    koudelad over 6 years ago +10
    I think that men and women have equal opportunities to pursue an engineering career. However, parents, kindergarten and elementary school play a crucial role in motivating them to do so. If you hide something…
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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 6 years ago

    They're totally not supported from what little I can tell. Probably needs a woman to tell.

    In the workplace, I see groups of male engineers huddled together discussing things, forgetting their female engineers in the room. I've seen this quite a few times.

    It's an uphill struggle to acquire information and progress in this manner.

    Then the online forums are disgustingly sexist (not to mention xenophobic and casually racist). Thankfully we don't overtly see it here.

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    dubbie over 6 years ago in reply to shabaz

    I think you are lucky to have even worked with female engineers, I never have so I do not even know if I would be sexist and exclude them - for all I know we (male) engineers might all be sexist. I've never had a female boss either although I did have a few female colleagues (lecturers). I have never done a diversity course, although I did an anti-corruption one once.

     

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    dubbie over 6 years ago in reply to shabaz

    I think you are lucky to have even worked with female engineers, I never have so I do not even know if I would be sexist and exclude them - for all I know we (male) engineers might all be sexist. I've never had a female boss either although I did have a few female colleagues (lecturers). I have never done a diversity course, although I did an anti-corruption one once.

     

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