Women in Engineering

bopper
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:19:30 +0000

I grew up in a town where a major Bell Labs was located. We had many smart kids in our class…both male and female. I remember being taken out for advanced math even starting in 5th grade. I never felt any pressure not to do well as a female nor discriminated against.

In the early 80’s i went to Case Western Reserve University and majored in Electrical Engineering. There were many more males than females but once again, I never experienced any issues. II do remember being the only female in my Multivariable Calc class. I was able to get a summer job as an engineer at IBM. When I graduated I was hired by Bellcore (a Bell Labs spin off)…they were a company that had the culture of AT&T and that included affirmative action classes, etc. When I had babies I had no issue being able to work part time until they got a bit older.