http://blog-aauw.org/2009/02/19/where-are-all-the-women/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog-aauw.org/2009/02/19/where-are-all-the-women/#comment-2082 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:00:25 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=1870#comment-2082 NPR’s Science Friday talks with Leslie Collins, executive director of the National Engineers Week Foundation, about the group’s “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” event. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200902201

]]> http://blog-aauw.org/2009/02/19/where-are-all-the-women/#comment-2075 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:38:21 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=1870#comment-2075 This deficit of women in engineering has been going on for a very long time…forever. While we need to focus on the choice that women and girls make for careers as you do in your comment, don’t forget that there is ongoing gender discrimination against women in engineering. It’s not just the obvious kind of discrimination but that the idea of “an engineer” is a male idea, sort of like ‘nurse’ still has a feminine connotation despite the fact that more and more men are becoming nurses. When boys and young men tell their parents that they want to major in engineering, parents take it as normal, even desirable. It will be a big hurdle to reach the point where when little Sally tells mom and dad that she plans to be an engineer they don’t think: “well, that’s unusual, but if that’s what she wants….”

]]> http://blog-aauw.org/2009/02/19/where-are-all-the-women/#comment-2071 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:27:18 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=1870#comment-2071 AAUW Beaverton (OR) Branch has a presentation on issues affecting gender equity in STEM fields from May 2008 at http://www.slideshare.net/dlaboyrush/aauw-stem-presentation-presentation.

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