[Madison]

Originally Posted by Tim Sharp

We don't have any girls on our Fabrication team due to the simple fact that none of them was interested in it. If they had expressed an interest, they would be on the team without reservation.

With due respect, this is passing the buck. You're foisting the burden of developing an interest in this part of STEM upon someone else. It's not enough to let girls do what they want (although that's certainly better than NOT letting them do what they want) -- you have to encourage them to do things that every other part of society is telling them that they cannot or should not do.

It's on us to step in and fill the gap that society creates. Simply being neutral here is not good enough. I don't mean to go after you, specifically, since I don't know you at all; I just see this sort of comment around here a lot and it's frustrating. Being gender agnostic will be a laudable thing someday, but I don't think that day is here yet and we should acknowledge that.