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Women in electronics

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NiHaoMike:
I suspect a lot of girls think "tech stuff is for guys", although that's changing now that there are so many prominent women in tech out there. (A few examples: April Wilkerson, Jennelle Eliana, Naomi Wu, Simone Giertz)

trollphilosophy:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 25, 2020, 02:38:34 pm ---I suspect a lot of girls think "tech stuff is for guys"

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Yes. It's probably deprecated mentality about men and women jobs.

coppice:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on December 25, 2020, 12:06:19 pm ---
From: https://www.oecd.org/gender/data/why-dont-more-girls-choose-stem-careers.htm

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The number of STEM graduates may have little to do with the number of people actually working in STEM jobs. With the huge numbers of people now getting degrees in western countries, only a modest percentage are getting jobs in the fields they studied. Also, many only work in the field they studied for a short period before moving on. The number of women studying for electronics degrees in most western countries isn't very high, but its a lot higher than the number you see working in fresh graduate electronics jobs. The number of women you see working in fresh graduate jobs is much higher than the number you see working as experienced engineers. You can go through a very large pile of CVs for a job requiring 10 years experience before you find the first woman candidate. You may find the complete opposite in some areas of life sciences.

jmelson:
Well, I can't say anything about US-born engineers.  I work with a EE professor from a nearby (state) university.  He has mostly foreign-born engineers, and about half of them are women.  Some of them are VERY good.  They work on IC design (the prof's specialty) and we get the benefit of having some chips designed for us.  He has rather few US-born students, and they have been 100% male.  Those guys were REALLY top-notch, though.

Jon

Bud:

--- Quote from: trollphilosophy on December 25, 2020, 11:24:18 am ---How many women are electronics engineers in your country compared to men ? Why the difference ?

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Get a wife or girlfriend and you will find out why pretty fast.

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