<p>Nothing at all is wrong with self-interest. I just do not see the wisdom in begging women to come to engineering. If they want to, they will. If not, they wont.
Is this call for women to join engineering meant to combat some stigma (percieved by women) hanging over the profession?</p>
<p>i agree with person above… i think colleges should be gender-blind to engineering applicants.</p>
<p>This thread reminds me of a lot of the things which were said to women to deter them from going into law a few decades ago. When I was a child (whoops my age is showing), the women we saw in professions were often either nurses or teachers or housewives. I was actively DISCOURAGED from going into law because I was told it was “not feminine.” & encouraged to go into teaching instead. I tried working with kids every summer but decided I’d much prefer law over teaching for a career, even tho support for my doing so was “lukewarm.” It worked out. I believe increasing numbers of women will become engineers, as they are also becoming doctors, pilots, architects, and all other professions they enjoy. As the numbers of females in the different professions shift, the stereotypes also tend to diminish, since more folks will meet more of the range of folks who go into the different professions.
OK, off my soapbox now. <grin>
My son is toying with the idea of going into engineering. He likes math & physics & computer science & bio & chem & history. He’s a rising senior.</grin></p>
<p>im going to be a woman engineer, im the ****.</p>
<p>I am not at all trying to dissuade women from becoming engineers. I just do not see the point of solely appealing to women to do just that, unless there really is a reason to like, say, to explode the stigma surrounding the job percieved by women if it truly exists.
Frankly, I just do not understand the effort to achieve gender parity in the workforce in every job. So long as women are in the workforce and in professional, respectable, jobs, their specific distribution does not seem to matter as much (to me at least).</p>
<p>I meant gender parity as in, equal presence or distribution.</p>
<p>gender parity is an evil conspiracy set about by all men in the country so as to insure at least one compatible mate/male person in every field. this way the male gender has to look no further than the next desk to a potential mate. its true. i mathematically proved it last night when i was watching tv.</p>