if only 18 percent of students are female in engineering, then it should be the same in the workplace. I wouldn’t expect the girls to be 50/50 in the workplace for engineering until the schooling is 50/50. as for why girls don’t go for engineering… it’s hard to say. I do think a lot of girls gravitate more towards nursing and things like that. What are the numbers for males in the nursing field? You can pull stats like this from various fields and it will show the same thing.
i had thought about going to school for computer engineering but then decided it wasn’t where i wanted to be. Not that deeply involved. I do have to say, the IT department at my work has a lot more females than I expected it to have, based on how many females were in IT majors at my college. It’s not 50/50, but it’s not 18 percent either.