Perhaps in some subcultures, but I know in at least a one immigrant community girls seem to be actively dissuaded from pursuing any engineering degrees whatsoev

Perhaps in some subcultures, but I know in at least a one immigrant community girls seem to be actively dissuaded from pursuing any engineering degrees whatsoever and steered instead toward the medical field in some capacity, or business degrees. When my significant other told her family she was changing majors to an engineering field away from a business field, they were pretty upset. In addition I noticed in the Bay Area when I lived there for a few years many of the immigrant Asians really didn't give a damn one way or the other what their daughters did. This is actually worse, in my opinion. Ah well, here is to the hope more of the sublimely proficient women I know seek engineering careers instead of pigeonholing themselves into "touchy feely" crap fields like marketing & PR.