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> actually a problem I agree. This is really one of those places where I think to myself, so what? The only real problem I see is that a guy who goes into th

by octane 17y ago

> actually a problem I agree. This is really one of those places where I think to myself, so what? The only real problem I see is that a guy who goes into the field is going to be surrounded by other dudes, which is one of my biggest regrets with this profession.

wheels 17y ago
I prefer working in an environment that's a mix of men and women, and I think that's fairly common. It's kind of embarrassing to admit, but I chose to go to a liberal arts school rather than an engineering school because I didn't want to go to a university that was 80% men.
- mcslee 17y ago
  I'm curious why you consider that embarrassing to admit? It's completely natural for human groups to seek gender balance. Very few engineering schools let themselves get to such an extreme gender imbalance, but if you really were picking between an 80/20 split and a liberal arts school, I'm highly confident that you are much better off for having picked the liberal arts school.
  - ninguem2 17y ago
    CalTech is 72/28.
    - christofd 17y ago
      ugggh, that's gay... Some of the local Universities here in Ontario, Canada, have the opposite ratio :)
  - xiaoma 17y ago
    >It's completely natural for human groups to seek gender balance. Is it? I see evidence of quite a few groups that are all-female and want to stay that way. http://tripletsdad.blogspot.com/2008/10/at-home-dad-banned-from-mothers-play.html http://tripletsdad.blogspot.com/2008/10/at-home-dad-banned-f...
- redrobot5050 17y ago
  Actually, that's one reason to support public education at the college level. We need more good state school engineering departments. More women will get into engineering, because of exposure, high salaries, and employer demand. Likewise, Male engineers will actually meet women. At Pitt, where I went for undergrad, the count for Computer Engineers/Electrical Engineers was something like 525. Only 38 were women. On the other hand, if you were well adjusted, you had no problem meeting women outside the engineering building.
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by octane 17y ago

wheels 17y ago

I prefer working in an environment that's a mix of men and women, and I think that's fairly common. It's kind of embarrassing to admit, but I chose to go to a liberal arts school rather than an engineering school because I didn't want to go to a university that was 80% men.

mcslee 17y ago
I'm curious why you consider that embarrassing to admit? It's completely natural for human groups to seek gender balance. Very few engineering schools let themselves get to such an extreme gender imbalance, but if you really were picking between an 80/20 split and a liberal arts school, I'm highly confident that you are much better off for having picked the liberal arts school.
- ninguem2 17y ago
  CalTech is 72/28.
  - christofd 17y ago
    ugggh, that's gay... Some of the local Universities here in Ontario, Canada, have the opposite ratio :)
- xiaoma 17y ago
  >It's completely natural for human groups to seek gender balance. Is it? I see evidence of quite a few groups that are all-female and want to stay that way. http://tripletsdad.blogspot.com/2008/10/at-home-dad-banned-from-mothers-play.html http://tripletsdad.blogspot.com/2008/10/at-home-dad-banned-f...
redrobot5050 17y ago
Actually, that's one reason to support public education at the college level. We need more good state school engineering departments. More women will get into engineering, because of exposure, high salaries, and employer demand. Likewise, Male engineers will actually meet women. At Pitt, where I went for undergrad, the count for Computer Engineers/Electrical Engineers was something like 525. Only 38 were women. On the other hand, if you were well adjusted, you had no problem meeting women outside the engineering building.

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