The women engineers I have worked with don’t last very long. One structural engineer was so unsure of herself I would give her somethng simple on Monday only to be told on Friday she couldn’t figure something out. She would not wet her pants if her pants were on fire without thinking about it for a day.
My niece is tall, blonde, pretty and thin, and just finished her sophomore year in engineering. She’s doing an engineering internship this summer in Cleveland. On week one on the job she had some old coot hitting on her— her male boss said she had every right to have the old coot written up for sexual harassment but she just laughed it off. She’s going to make a fine engineer.
Confidence is something I don’t have to worry about with the young one.
Dad taught her that.