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Re: Girls in Engineering- Comic that explains it all
I have personally experienced negative effects of this "hyper encouragement" to get women into engineering. I, and a friend of mine (who is a girl) both applied to the same engineering college. I had a better academic and extra-curricular record than she did (she agrees with this) yet she got accepted and I did not. This particular college strives to maintain a 50/50 m/f ratio, but I would bet that their applicant pool was no 50/50.
Do you (the royal you, referring to all of CD) think that it's okay for more qualified men to be denied opportunities so that a college can meet its 50/50 goal? Is there a point here that I'm missing? (This is not a rhetorical question and I'm not trying to be a smart-$@#$@#$@#.)
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Theory is a nice place, I'd like to go there one day, I hear everything works there.
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot, common sense is trying to not be an idiot, wisdom is knowing that you will still be an idiot.
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One of our electrical engineers would bring his kids in every so often, so they could actually see their dad during build season. - Karthik [more] 
15-06-2010, 15:42
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