Girls are still undermined?

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Before someone bites my head off: I will be speaking in generalizations. If I say that a certain group does something, it in no way means that everyone in that group will do it. The following statements are also observations, not opinions.

While I'm not willing to say that girls tend toward the "creative" tasks, I will say that they tend away from engineering tasks. Without encouragement and reassurance, I've noticed that many girls that have passed through the team won't do engineering. It seems that they won't do it on their own. I'm not just talking about the dirty work, they don't seem to like design work either. While most of them will do the work, they usually need active encouragement and someone to make sure they keep going. Once they get into it, though, they'll stay with it. There haven't been many that want to take on higher level engineering positions though.

I will also note that with the creation of our administrative branch (marketing, PR...) there was a massive influx of girls. However, they seem to have evenly distributed themselves between engineering and administration.