Women in Engineering

retiredfarmer
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:44:20 +0000

Many years ago I was interviewing a woman applicant at an engineering college. At the end of each interview, parents would often be invited to join the interview. Like her father, she wanted to be a civil engineer. Dad was an alumnus.

Mom ran up the stairs ahead of Dad and breathlessly warned that Dad was dead set against his daughter pursuing that career. Mother was OK with it.

Dad’s reasoning, he wanted to insulate his daughter from all the foul language she would hear on construction sites

His daughter persisted and pursued CE.