It is indeed sad that there are not more women in engineering fields, it is rare that I ever come across any and this is also represented in forum statistics.
A female tech hired me for my first job.
And here is the interesting thing. Go and ask any engineering channel what their gender stats are and they will all say it's only a few percent female.
Why?
Youtube is the ultimate gateway to free tech information that is available equally to everyone, everywhere, of every gender without any pressure at all from anyone on what you watch or why.
Yet with countless programs encouraging girls to get into engineering over the last decades, many role models etc, it's still only a small percentage. Why...
It did partially cover why but there's another point I don't think's been mentioned.
Educational careers advice.
As parents we took careful notice of what our 3 were being pushed toward in their later years of schooling and IMHO all these so called professionals could offer was BS.
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In our case, in their formative years we'd get them to take on part time holiday jobs, any job, just to look into the big wide world that awaited them.
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We never had much spare cash to spoil our kids and they relished in some small opportunities to get some of their own....even though they hated the mundane tasks that school kids could only get. What they learnt was invaluable for their futures........they learnt just what jobs they didn't ever want to do.
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This in some way focussed them into their studies and also careful thought of the career that they might pursue.
All along mum and dad pushed maths as the most valuable toolbox they could ever acquire, especially as neither of us had excelled but in later life saw just how extremely valuable maths is. More than all other subjects IMHO.
Early in this thread a member mentioned that girls need be brought up to know they can do anything...they most certainly can but in some career paths it's harder for them to succeed, the tables are stacked against them and a good amount of content here supports this as what many of us already know.
The way forward is to support our next female generations, not by some BS agency but the backing of parents and those all around them. Succeed they might if they try hard enough and they must prove they can by their results and commitment to their studies. They have to do it, not us, them !
Go girls.
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