Women in Engineering

Knowsstuff
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:08:35 +0000

I am surprised that this thread didn’t get more traction. But maybe it’s because there isn’t the separation there was in the 1980s? That’s a great thing.

My son and a friend started a tech club at Michigan on Augmented reality /XR. The very first thing they did when building their board for this student org was to reach out to Wise. They got 2 women engineering students joining the board. Everyone sees each others as equals. They together have built something very impressive on campus. Now they have 8 board members with 4 being women. They interviewed candidates for these positions.

Even when I talk to women that are students at a school like Rose Hulman which is 70/30 men /women on its best day. They tell me they all feel equal. They just wished there were more women on campus. No one from either school see’s a gender issue with getting internships or jobs either…

I hope this is a realistic view and not an anomaly.