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Originally Posted by mikelowry
Gender stereotyping is the same as racial
Generally, women tend to be different than men. No one can dispute that. But individually, there is as much difference between members of the same sex as there is between members of opposite sexes. So much so, that the generality doesn't matter.
We dont need more women engineers. Saying that we do is just placing more emphasis on the generality that doesnt matter. We are making gender a factor when it shouldn't be. What we need is more engineers, wether they be women or men, or if they are black, white, asian, hispanic, or whatever, it doesn't matter.
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I agree with you 100% on that. As a guy who is attending his first year of college this fall, I find the way people are going about support women in engineering quite disturbing. I have found that more than half of all the specifically engineering related scholarships available are for women only. Is this how we want to encourage women to go into engineering, especially bribe them? Do we want people studying engineering because they will not have to pay as much for school? Women and men are different, and while I do agree there are social pressures on women not to go into engineering, I don't see how these scholarships are doing anything to encourage interest in engineering.
I know I'll get some hate for this, but as a guy, at least from an education standpoint, I feel that we are considered less important than women because "Men can do whatever they want." And I believe this borders on reverse discrimination.
Just my opinion.
-Kit