• Question: Why do you think there are less female engineers than male?

    Asked by barryhomeowner to Vinita, Rachel, Pam, Christopher, Brian, Andrew on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Rachel Hudson

      Rachel Hudson answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I’m not sure exactly… maybe because not many young girls have seen a lot of female engineers and scientists to inspire them?

    • Photo: Christopher Youens

      Christopher Youens answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Attitudes and stereotypes that need to change.

    • Photo: Pam Anderson

      Pam Anderson answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      That is a really good question. I am really sad that this is still the case. I think we need to be better at representing female engineers and also help the general public to understand what Engineers do a bit better than we do just now. More female role models would help but I also think we need to stop stereotyping ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ toys from really young ages.

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