The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

  • @derf82
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    11 year ago

    That wasn’t my experience in engineering at all. One woman I graduated with in Civil Engineering was elected President of our Tau Beta Pi chapter for the whole engineering college. We had professors that verbally wished there were more women in engineering.

    And some of those professors trying to get women to wash out? They are after the men, too. Many college have “gatekeeper” classes to ensure that only qualified candidates make it. For instance in my engineering program, lots of men as well as some women (proportional to the few women that took them) washed out after not being able to pass Statics or Dynamics. Those are just the nature of those courses