Clearly your filter is broken.
1. An ME is NOT the lone criteria for an engineering position.
2. I’m not talking about ratios in the general defense industry population, I’m talking about the proportion of women in management positions WHO ARE RUNNING THINGS.
125,000 are employed there....so I’ll take that “sample of one”.
You apparently don’t know statistics. Tell me out of all the managers at Boeing ( or where ever you work) how many women are ENGINEERING managers? How many women ENGINEERS do you have?
Your sample is still a sample of one because you are talking about one work location in one company.
So what are the numbers?