Gender Equality: A Work in Progress

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by planetbrilliant

Okay, I am by no means targeting you and your team specifically and i might have misunderstood your statement, but I feel like lots of people kind of automatically assume that the girls aren't into engineering. Like a girl could be into engineering but when they get assigned into sub-groups they get pushed toward design, finance etc, and if they try to work on the robot they feel excluded or unwanted. This might not be purposeful on behalf of the manufacturing team, but intentional or not it is a problem. All four of the girls are interested in working on the robot, but instead they are pushed toward scouting, attendance, design, chairman's etc.

In the beginning of the year we do demonstrations of what we do. From there we have them decide (boys and girls) what team they want to be on. Simple as that. I wish there were more girls on our team into engineering but most of our female members would rather write an essay then drill a hole. There are the exceptions like our engineering vp who is a girl and we have a freshman member who doesn't come much but when she does she goes around the robot and cleans everything up (she's a perfectionist).