> I hear it from her and her female engineering friends a lot. Well, the two variables your subjects have in common is being engineers as well as being female.

> I hear it from her and her female engineering friends a lot. Well, the two variables your subjects have in common is being engineers as well as being female. Personally (being a male engineer), I'd say being a bad negotiator has just as much to do with being an engineer as being a woman (except if women engineers are even worse negotiators than I am).