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June 17th 05, 07:15 AM
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Phil Kane wrote: On 15 Jun 2005 17:01:18 -0700, wrote: In all my 43 years in engineering I've met a grand total of four woman engineers, two MEs, one EE and a Chem E. In my 50 years in engineering I've =dated= more women engineers than you seem to have met, was engaged to one (nuclear engineer) and married another (EE). In my wife's office alone there are more than 4 =PEs= on her floor, including the chief of the structural engineering section (imagine that, a lady tower engineer). Had my wife gone through the paperwork as she talked about twenty years ago she, too, would have been a PE. Our contesting club alone has three female members, an old girlfriend is a ham and I met W3CUL. Out of Lord only knows how many engineers and hams I've met over the years. In our club, the largest radio club in the state if not in the Pacific Northwest, about 1/3 of the hams are women, and of them, about half are active on the air in some fashion or other. This topic is getting interesting, I'd like to take it a bit further. I'm at a complete loss to understand why there's such an obvious disparity in the numbers of woman hams & engineers in this part of the country vs. in your part of the country. With respect to the socioeconomicpolitical mindsets Oregon is well known for marching to it's own occasionally quirky liberal drummer while PA is a typical old-form mid-Atlantic centrist sort of place. I 'spose there are some of the usual left coast / right coast differences which sort of favor left coast women and might explain part of it. But good grief, we're not talking Albania and Sweden here. I've mulled the matter off and on for a few hours and it occurs to me that maybe, just maybe our exposures to women engineers in particular have been quite different. As in where you've churned your coin vs. where I've gotten mine over the years. I've only spent a total of ten years working for large entities, six as a Navy employee back when woman engineers simply didn't exist for all practical purposes, then much later I did four with the DuPont central engineering center in the mid-1980s. Three of the four woman engineers I've met and cited were DuPont employees, the fourth was a short-time part timer I ran into on a specific small-biz project whose real job was with some large firm or another. Except for the six I did with the Navy, a gig I loved and was enormous fun I've spent most of the rest of my career in smokestack small-medium size busineses. I have allergic reactions to huge employers for a number of reasons and generally avoid them. I despise corporate beige with a purple passion If I have it right you spent most of your career with the FCC, another huge entity. Is it possible that women in engineering tend to gravitate in large numbers to major entities where fair employment practices are actually practiced and you've gotten involved with more of them than I've ever managed to meet? -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon w3rv Out here in the smokestacks of Delaware County PA |
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