As a woman engineer, I’ve been in the minority for a long time. At university I was in classes where I was the only woman. It’s been a bit of an upstream swim to my career path – I wasn’t choosing the most obvious route or doing what might have been expected of me. I’ve always been interested in making it easier for future generations to make the same types of choices I made. While I didn’t experience any blatant sexism, it wasn’t considered “cool”, or something that most women should do. I didn’t always know about all the options available to me.
When I was contacted by WGBH about being part of a web site to get girls more aware of engineering fields and opportunities, I was thrilled. This is something I’m very interested in! WGBH is a PBS affiliate in Boston, and this is a very big project, with smart women from all different engineering disciplines participating.
Check out my awesome web profile, complete with a video segment. And when you’re done with me, go check out the other accomplished women on the site! This site is just the kind of thing to provide all sorts of stellar information about how cool and exciting engineering can be!
2 Responses to “Getting Girls into Engineering”
I took a look at this. Way cool.
Not that it *directly* affects me. But I got this four year old niece…
This is great! I believe that the term engineer has also broadened to not just fields that have to do with machinery or electronics. For instance, I’m sure there are many women that do reliability engineering.