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Women in electronics
amyk:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 25, 2020, 02:38:34 pm ---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)
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Most of the "prominent" ones are actually not that great... they are just prominent.
The truly competent ones you don't hear about, because they blend in with the men. We are in the minority, but I am fine with that.
China is conspicuously missing from the charts above.
bob91343:
I have wondered the same thing. It seems that there is some genetic difference that causes women to lack interest in electronics. Of course electronics is a very big field but even so women engineers are seldom in evidence.
I don't think it's cultural, that men find ways to keep women out. I think more that women don't want in.
Look at music. While there are many woman musicians playing every instrument, there is definitely skew. Way out of proportion more women are singers rather than instrumentalists. Very few play the typical male instruments like saxophone and trumpet and, somewhat, double bass and trombone. They more often play violin or flute or harp or piano. I don't know why this is, but it seems to be so.
Engineering is complex and even teaching it is complex. I never met a female engineering teacher. I met one female engineer who said that engineering was the last frontier for women in industry.
thinkfat:
--- 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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R2 = 0.28 is pretty low. Doesn't make sense to actually draw that line.
coppice:
--- Quote from: bob91343 on December 25, 2020, 10:27:37 pm ---I have wondered the same thing. It seems that there is some genetic difference that causes women to lack interest in electronics. Of course electronics is a very big field but even so women engineers are seldom in evidence.
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I find a significant (not huge, but significant) number of women show real interest in electronics as a subject to study, but most rapidly lose interest in it when they need to spend day after day at a bench or desk, head down, working through piles of fine details. They quickly want to move on. Systems design is an area where you do find more women sticking around in significant numbers. This also involves lots of head down work on the fine minutiae of the system models, so its not obvious why this maintains the interest of more women.
MK14:
Jeri Ellsworth. (They even use to be an active member here on this forum).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth
Amazing, genuine interest in Electronics, even including vintage stuff!
Hence, series like these:
Amazing Live Volcano video they made, well worth watching, if you haven't seen it yet:
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