Lack of Women Engineers

LauraN
Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:59:42 +0000

jeffl: “There are not many nice, down to earth, dedicated female engineers who are attractive. don’t burn me for saying this!! This was just my experience with female engineers. Often the female engineering majors are either really nerdy to a point of being annoying, or think she is way too hot and cool to be an engineer.”

And the MEN in engineering are…what exactly? Drop-dead gorgeous? Sexy underwear models?

…Or do they spend all their free time playing Halo 2? Fill me in here. Notice how many threads there are on the stereotypes of male engineers.

Don’t talk to me about female engineers being “nerdy to the point of being annoying” until you’ve dated a male engineer who finds it hard to balance girlfriend time with Half-Life time.

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I’ve been there. And it ain’t pretty.