Women in Engineering

VMT
Sun, 31 May 2020 19:05:28 +0000

I started working in 1985 and have worked for both large corporations and small engineering companies. Bad language was rarely an issue, especially at the big companies. The presidents of both of the small companies I worked for (both in Maine @MaineLonghorn) had salty language, but I didn’t let it bother me.

My daughter spent a summer interning on a manufacturing floor, and while she did fine, I don’t think she loved the environment. But, that could be the case for anyone, male or female.

In general, I have not been treated differently from my male counterparts throughout my career. I was, on occasion, offered an opportunity because I am a woman. A handful of times, I suspected a bias against women engineers. In later years, I learned some of those people weren’t nice to anyone, and it wasn’t just my gender. A few times, I was asked to fix the Xerox machine or arrange a lunch