Ok, I'll go out on a limb here. In my country -USA- the vast majority of engineers are male. This, in spite of decades of affirmative action programs and an active feminist community. The government doesn't have anything to do with it. Little boys grow up playing with trucks, taking apart their dad's radio, and jumping out of trees with homemade parachutes. I have known some excellent female engineers, but without exception their strengths have been on the theoretical and analytical side rather than roll up the sleeves hands-on tinkering. Different strokes for different folks.
Bob Stephens Principal Design Engineer DCX-CHOL Enterprises, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:13 AM To: Protel EDA Discussion List Subject: Re: [PEDA] [OT] Vias. On 8/4/05 22:55:59, you wrote: > In my country 50% of the students are male and 50% - female. May I ask what country? > Well, it depends on the Government. How do you think it depends on the government? Where I went to university (Germany -- back then, West Germany), we had not many more than 10 female students in the first semester of EE, out of over 400 total. But I didn't perceive any discernible influence of the government on the decision what course to choose. I know that in some Eastern European countries and in Russia, it's much more common for women to choose engineering professions than it is in Western Europe. However, I'm not sure how that would be a result of some government action. It just seems that the girls there think of engineering as a possible profession for them, more than in some other places. > Being on the female side I can say that it takes much more efford for a > woman to succeed. Maybe... OTOH I think it's a common perception that it takes more for oneself to succeed than it takes for some others. I guess everybody knows some "dumb jerks" that he (or she) doesn't think are worth the success they are having. And given the percentages in our profession, the likelihood that all the "dumb jerks" one knows are male is very high. Which doesn't say much about male vs female, if you put it into a statistical perspective. It's quite difficult to measure the effort of others and compare it objectively to one's own effort. It's already difficult to measure the quality of the results, but it's very difficult to measure the effort put into them. Gerhard ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
