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Yes and no. In Canada, software engineering is an accredited, 'professional' program and discipline; that doesn't seem to have helped gender ratios within softw
by jarek 16y ago
Yes and no. In Canada, software engineering is an accredited, 'professional' program and discipline; that doesn't seem to have helped gender ratios within software much for now, but nevertheless it's outpaced by stereotypically dirty and male disciplines like civil and chemical engineering.
Sample from one institution: http://web.archive.org/web/20080611075012/http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~w-in-eng/Resources/statistics.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080611075012/http://www.eng.uwa.... Class sizes are around 80-100 except for environmental and geological which are half to third of that.
- zb 16y agoOK, but that link still shows Software and Computer engineering ahead of Mechanical and Electrical engineering.
- jarek 16y agoTrue. Clearly professionalization is not the only required step, but the natural experiment doesn't tell you it's not required — hence my "yes and no" reply.
- wyclif 16y agostereotypically dirty and male disciplines like civil and chemical engineering I spent 10 years as a land surveyor and GIS cartographer, and during that entire time I met one (!) woman surveyor. CE is notorious for this.
- neutronicus 16y agoAt my school civil and environmental engineering were in one department, and most of the girls where there for the "environmental" half - or so my CEE friends said, anyways.