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Originally Posted by CLandrum3081

Intro to Engineering Design: I don't remember how many students there were first term, but this term, I am the only girl among upwards of twenty students.

As a student aspiring to be an engineer, this is what I will have to deal with my whole life.

This is an unfortunate but true fact at the moment. The highest ratio of women to men I have seen in an engineering environment is on the FRC teams I have been apart of. In my ECE college program there were only a handful of women in each class of around 100 students. At my employer there is only 1 female in an engineering or management role in my department, most of the female managers at the site are in a financial or HR position.

Team 842 did an experiment with this back in 2007 and 2008 to give the girls on their team more exposure to roles that were typically male dominated. This topic was particularly relevant to them because of traditional gender roles in Hispanic culture. Their experience is an eye-opener showing how culture change is difficult even in an organization dedicated to changing our culture.