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June 17th 05, 10:41 PM
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Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote: . . . Is it possible that the woman engineers I don't see out here are operating in academia instead?? Would not surprise me a bit if that's the case. I work with 5 or so regularly. I think you are probably correct regarding their increased presence in academia, compared to industry. My thoughts on why that is so are based on two ideas. First is that the academic world is sensitive to gender issues, due to groups that bust on them if they are not. The Harvard guy . . . . Yee-haw! SPANK! This leads to the second reason. That is that until there are a lot more women graduating in the engineering fields, the academic world will scap them up pretty quickly. No particular comment here, I've been completely out of touch with the innards of academia for years. Some have noted that women tend to think differently than men, and may not want to go into the engineering fields as a result of that difference. (note that this is as a trend- not as the circumstances regarding any one woman) I am not sure if the differences are instinctual, or culture based. Time will tell. And it will probably be quite a long time. Certainly women think differently than men and it's good thing they do in several respects. As far as the timing of the emergence of large numbers of woman engineers goes. Hell, I know scads of women contemporaries of mine whose parents never gave them a chance to go into higher education "because the woman's place is in the home barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen". Never mind support their daughters desires to become engineers. Society has come a long way since those days but it's gonna take a few more generations before this thinking actually prevails. Of course she had "problems" with this male chauvinist pig. Finally got down to me suggesting that instead of differentiating by the man/woman thing we differtiate by using "X-Chromosone people" and "Y-Chromosone people" instead. Only got me about ten seconds of peace before she recovered and got all over me again. Yoiks! Yeah yoicks . . she drove me batty, you would not believe it. 15 years later she glomed two degrees before she turned 21, has four kids, a big home in a cushy neighborhood and votes Republican . . . I recently told her 13-year-old son about his Mom riding with Warlocks when she was 14. I dunno how I survived but I have so now it's payback time for Pop-pop. Her two sisters weren't cakewalks either. In fairness to the particular engineer, she is not particularly obnoxious. Mostly just wants to get her work done. - Mike KB3EIA - w3rv |
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